A judge lays most of the blame on a service technician for the crash of a cable car in Italy that killed 14 people and left one child survivor.
Everybody knows Angels Flight. But what about Court Flight? Or the Mt. Washington Railway? Or the Catalina Island funicular? Here’s the story of the cars that climbed Southern California’s hills and the automobiles and other calamities that all but made them extinct.“He is not a criminal and would never have let people go up with the braking system blocked had he known that there was even a possibility that the cable would have broken,” Perillo said.
The lift, which features four large tram cars bringing passengers up and down the mountain, reopened April 26 after a lengthy COVID-19 shutdown and was gearing up for the summer tourist season in a picturesque part of northern Italy. Perocchio, who works for Leitner SpA, similarly denied any knowledge of Tadini’s decision about the bracket. Perocchio’s lawyer, Andrea Da Prato, suggested that his client had been arrested because the prosecutor feltAs he left jail, Perocchio said he was “desperately sad” for the victims and never would have authorized disabling the emergency brake.“I’ve been working in cable cars for 21 years and I know there’s no reason in the world to do that,” he told reporters.