(ANSA) - MILAN, 17 SEPTEMBER - The Mottarone cable car crashed "due to the deterioration of the pulling cable".
This is what emerges from the report filed yesterday in the Court in Verbania on the causes of the accident of the Mottarone cable car in which, on May 23, 2021, 14 people died.
"At the breaking point - reads the document - about 68% of the wires show fracture surfaces that testify to a fatigue / corrosion breakage of the wires reasonably prior to the precipitation of 23 May 2021" in which 14 people died.
"A correct implementation of the controls (...) would have allowed to detect the signs of degradation, that is the presence of even a single broken wire or signs of corrosion and, therefore, to replace the cast head as required by the regulations", writes the pool of engineers in the expertise.
According to the experts, the accident was caused by the degradation of the hauling rope "in correspondence with the graft" in the cast head and the presence of forks which excluded the operation of the emergency brakes.
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