What is known about the Napoli cable accident accident
This great Friday, the mourning of the citizen in the town NapoliAfter the tragic cable car accident This costs four people on Thursday afternoon.
There is still another person with a hospital in serious condition, but it is stable, while the Italian authorities are already investigating what the accident could end the rescue operation during the early morning.
How did the accident happen?
Cable Car is part of the Cintrowinguvian Public Transport Network, which connects the city of Naples to the preservation of the eastern outskirts. The evil cabins from the town of Castellammare di stabia ascended to Mount Faito, a The road that tourists in general This returned to the activity a week before the winter closed.
in 14.40h On Thursday, the cabin where the deceased was traveling in the middle of an important storm, according to the local media.
in 14: 46H An active alarm error due to The traction cable rupture. In the cabin that was in the lowest part of the road, the emergency brakes were activated, and then hung above. In this cabin, 10 passengers were traveling, which were evacuated at the next hour by firefighters with harnessing without reporting any injury.
The fate of the other cabin passengers was completely different. This remained suspended for a few seconds, but Emergency brake failureAllow him to rush to the void, with his five crew on board. The car fell on the side of the hill on a forest filled with trees, songs and pramatat.
How was the rescue process?
While the emergency teams began saving the ten cabin crew, which remained suspended, the search for the other cabin began in the middle of a thick fog, still knows that it had started.
The news begins to become pessimistic when it is impossible to call The mechanic, which does not respond to calls In their phones and 17:15 rescuers confirm that the cabin has fallen and there were victims.
At that time, many journalists were collected, curious and already familiar at Castellammare Di Stabia, waiting for the news. With the arrival of the first rescuers, hope was fading.
“I can say that the scene that appeared in front of us was inhaled. The trees were like spears,” Salvator Carskolo, an emergency services worker who was one of the first to reach the tragedy site, told the Italian media. “We just managed to save the wounded in a very dangerous country. For others, unfortunately, there was no hope.”
Who are the deceased?
The condition of the bodies hindered its identity, which was extended overnight. The cabin driver was the first to confirm, and he informed his wife, who was waiting at the station, his death at 8:25 pm. He was Carmin Parrato, 59 years old That worked in this position for eight.
The other three were tourists. Two British citizens, Margaret Eileen Wayne, 58And his brother, Grame derek Winn, 65. Another victim is a Palestinian woman with an Israeli passport traveling 25 years Jenan SuleimanAccording to the Israeli media.
The only survivor of the accident, which was simply identified as TS, is the brother of the latter, and an Israeli citizen who is about 30 years old “was rented and in deep anesthesia” in the Napoli City Hospital in serious condition, but stable.
What is the reason?
Torre Annunziata opened an investigation into the guilty murders and Jeddah killing. Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo SalviniHe requested a report on this installation, run by the company’s entity (ETURNO), to determine the potential responsibilities of what happened.
The researchers are working on three main factors, according to the local media. The cause of the collapse Stormy time and wind They can somehow affect the accident.
However, this hypothesis was excluded by the EAV president, Umberto De Gregorio, who stressed that “there is no relationship between bad weather and cabin drowning. I do not say that, the technicians say this. There is an automatic system. For De Gregorio, the tragedy cannot be explained.
Other cabler accidents in Italy
The tragic accident on Thursday was not the first to suffer from the same line of cables. In August 1960, Human mistakeThe cabin touched the land with the inability to stop, causing four dead and 31 wounded to influence, according to the local media.
More lives were charged in 2021 other accidents in Teleférico de Stressa-MottaroneAlso in Italy, but in the Alps, the north of the country. The collapse of the traction cable was behind the tragedy that caused 14 dead.
In 1998, this time due to the passage of an American combat plane, the cable of the Cavaliz cable, a ski station in Los Dolometas, in northern Italy, was cut off It was separated from the void and caused 20 people.
