Mottarone cable car, cabin “went down at insane speed: 13 killed instantly”

The breaking of the towing cable of the Mottarone cableway, for reasons yet to be ascertained, meant that cabin number 3 near the final station of Mottarone, “instead of stopping suspended from the supporting cable as it should have done, if the red forks so-called brake locks, began to slide backwards, descending at insane speed towards the valley, towards Stresa, Alpini and, after reaching the pylon number 3 of the Alpino-Mottarone section, it unhooked from the carrying rope, crushing to the ground and rolling downstream on the very steep slope, until it hit a tree “. Read also An accident that resulted in the “immediate death on the spot due to contusive-fracture multiple trauma with hemorrhage” of 13 tourists on board, the little 6-year-old Mattia died at 7.15 pm on Sunday 23 May at the Regina Margherita hospital in Turin where he is hospitalized the only survivor of the tragedy. It is one of the passages of the arrest decree issued against three under investigation by the Verbania prosecutor’s office. “Tadini blocked brakes with Perocchi endorsement and Nerini” Gabriele Tadini “admitted that he had deliberately and repeatedly inserted the brake blocking devices (forks) during normal passenger transport service, thereby deactivating the emergency braking system intended to come into operation and stop the run of the cable car in the event of danger and in particular of sudden breakage of the towing cable “, reads one of the passages of the decree of arrest. A choice that has as its aim” to remedy the problems that have long occurred to the regular operation of the braking system; conduct of which both Perocchi and Nerini had been repeatedly informed, which supported this choice and did not take action to allow the necessary maintenance interventions that would have required the temporary shutdown of the system, with consequent economic repercussions “. Luigi Nerini, the sole administrator of the Ferrovie del Mottarone that manages the cable car system, Gabriele Tadini, head of service responsible for the system and Enrico Pericchio, engineer and external consultant, are in custody on charges of multiple manslaughter, very serious injuries and omissions. of caution.