Mottarone, report: “Most of the rope already broken before the tragedy”

“A correct implementation of the controls themselves 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”. This is what we read in the report, filed with the Court in Verbania, prepared to understand the causes of the accident of the Mottarone cable car in which 14 people lost their lives on May 23, 2021. Read also “Fatigue and fatigue / corrosion breakages in most of the wires (68%) occurred well before May 23, 2021”. This is what we read in the report, filed with the Court in Verbania, prepared to understand the causes of the accident of the Mottarone cable car in which 14 people lost their lives on May 23, 2021. “In recent months, the checks, which were not found in any register, have not been carried out”, reads the document. “A correct implementation of the controls themselves would have allowed 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”. “The breaking of the hauling rope, as ascertained by the extensive metallographic and fractographic analyzes were carried out, not due to an excess of effort, but due to the degradation of the rope itself which occurred in correspondence with the graft of the rope in the same cast head, the most delicate point of the rope “, we read. “The cause of the precipitation of cabin 3 of the cable car was the insertion of operating exclusions to the emergency braking system provided by law and present in cabin 3 These exclusions prevented, on the occasion of the breaking of the hauling cable, that the emergency braking system was activated, locking the car safely on the supporting rope “, is explained in the document on file.” The fractographic analysis has in fact shown that, in correspondence with the breaking point of the tractor, about 68% of the wires has fractured surfaces that testify to a fatigue and fatigue / corrosion breakage of the wires reasonably prior to the precipitation of 23 May 2021 “, concludes the report.