US EditionCable snapped in deadly Lisbon funicular crash, report finds
- A deadly derailment occurred on Wednesday night in Lisbon when the century-old Gloria funicular's connecting cable snapped, killing 16 and injuring 21.
- The accident happened because the connecting cable failed at its attachment to the cabin at the top of the hill, causing the brakes to fail and the cabin to accelerate uncontrollably.
- The funicular, a popular tourist attraction operating since 1914, features two separate carriages traveling a steep slope between Restauradores Square and Bairro Alto in about three minutes.
- The investigative report released Saturday confirmed that after the cable connecting the two cabins broke, they moved less than 20 feet, and efforts by the cabin’s brakeman to stop the descent by applying both pneumatic and hand brakes were unsuccessful.
- Officials plan to publish a final report later with full analysis, while the Foreign Office supports families of the three British nationals among the dead in one of Lisbon’s worst recent tragedies.
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By Billy Stockwell and Duarte Mendonca, CNN A preliminary investigation indicates that a connection cable broke before the fatal accident of one of the most representative funiculars of the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, which left at least 16 dead and several injured, on Wednesday, September 3. The investigation carried out by the Office for the Prevention and Investigation of Accidents in Civil Aviation and Ferroviaria (GPIAAF, Portuguese acronym…
Following the tragic accident in Lisbon, an initial investigation report has been published. It confirms a dire suspicion.
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