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Mottarone: 68% of the rope was already broken before the tragedy

2022-09-17T10:25:00.223Z


A correct implementation of the controls would have allowed to detect the signs of deterioration, according to the report filed yesterday in the Court in Verbania. The degradation of the rope in the joint with the cast head (ANSA)


The Mottarone cable car crashed "due to the degradation of the towing cable".

This is what emerges from the report filed yesterday in the Court in Verbania.

"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 they are 14 people died.

"A correct implementation of the controls (...) would have made it possible to detect the signs of deterioration, 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".

This was written by the pool of engineers in the report filed yesterday in court in Verbania on the causes of the accident of the Mottarone cable car in which, on May 23, 2021, 14 people died.

According to the experts, the accident was caused by the deterioration of the hauling cable "in correspondence with the graft" in the cast head and the presence of forks which excluded the operation of the emergency brakes.

Source: ansa

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