Doomed Cable Car had DIY Brake Fix

[Bekeart]

Three people involved with an Italian cable car company have been arrested after a crash Sunday in the northern part of the country left 14 dead. Carabinieri Lt. Col. Alberto Cicognani told local media one of those three admitted to police that an emergency brake on the cable car kept spontaneously engaging, so workers had, as a stopgap measure, placed a clamp on the brake to keep it from activating, reports the AP. That DIY fix was performed several weeks ago, instead of the car being taken out of service for a more thorough, permanent repair. "This brought about the fact that when the cable broke, the cabin fell backwards" with nothing to stop it, and plummeted 65 feet into the Mottarone mountain in Piedmont, located in the Western Alps, Cicognani says.

3 Arrests After Cops Find DIY Brake Fix to Doomed Cable Car

 

[NYlakesider]

Three people involved with an Italian cable car company have been arrested after a crash Sunday in the northern part of the country left 14 dead. Carabinieri Lt. Col. Alberto Cicognani told local media one of those three admitted to police that an emergency brake on the cable car kept spontaneously engaging, so workers had, as a stopgap measure, placed a clamp on the brake to keep it from activating, reports the AP. That DIY fix was performed several weeks ago, instead of the car being taken out of service for a more thorough, permanent repair. "This brought about the fact that when the cable broke, the cabin fell backwards" with nothing to stop it, and plummeted 65 feet into the Mottarone mountain in Piedmont, located in the Western Alps, Cicognani says.

3 Arrests After Cops Find DIY Brake Fix to Doomed Cable Car

Sounds like the bubalinoas at work. Hold my vino and watch this!