(ANSA) - VERBANIA, DECEMBER 15 - Already thirteen months before 23 May 2021, the day in which cabin number 3 of the Mottarone cable car crashed causing the death of 14 people, it would have been possible to observe the signs of damage to the pulling rope.
Andrea Gruttadauria, professor of Metallurgy and non-metallic materials and metallurgical technologies at the Milan Polytechnic, who intervened in the courtroom as a consultant, explained it during the seventh hearing of the probative incident arranged to shed light on the accident.
"At least a year before the failure you could see that something was happening", argued Gruttadauria, who reached his conclusions based on the analysis of the propagation of the so-called crack, the crack that precedes the breakage, that is, observing the way it developed the fracture of the rope.
Meanwhile, the first estimates of what could be the compensation for the civil parties are emerging: it could be around 25 million euros, a figure to be divided among the families of the 14 victims.
Of these, 10 million could be made available by Reale Mutua, which insured Funivie del Mottarone.
The probative case will continue tomorrow with the eighth, and in all likelihood last, hearing.
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