The report recommends that the city’s other funiculars remain out-of-service until investigators can confirm that they’re safe for passengers. The funicular that crashed in Lisbon killing 16 people in early September had a faulty cable, the official inquiry said Monday, recommending the city’s vehicles stay out of service until their safety can be confirmed.
The funicular accident that killed 16 people in Lisbon resulted from “the disconnection of the cable between the two cabins” that were connected, the Air and Rail Accident Investigation Bureau revealed on Saturday, without explaining at this stage the causes of the disaster.
“The scheduled visual inspection, carried out on the morning of the accident, did not detect any anomaly in the cable”, the investigators said in their first note, which is supposed to reflect confirmed findings and not precise conclusions on the causes of the accident.
