On 26 May 2021 at 21:52:00 BST, "Steve Walker"
wrote:
On 26/05/2021 14:51, Fredxx wrote:
On 26/05/2021 14:35, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 26/05/2021 14:31, GB wrote:
On 26/05/2021 14:25, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 26/05/2021 14:11, Roger Hayter wrote:
On 26 May 2021 at 12:57:28 BST, "The Natural Philosopher"
wrote:
On 26/05/2021 12:54, GB wrote:
Â* One official told Italian TV channel Rai 3 that the suspects had
Â* admitted disactivating the emergency brake following
"malfunctions in
Â* the cable car", which repair workers had been unable to fix,
according
Â* to Ansa new agency.
Â* https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57252289
Â* As one does, of course. What a load of plonkers.
How could that have caused the cable to break?
The point of the emergency brake is that the cable car is lifted up
theÂ* the
main 'unbreakable' possibly dual support cables by a relatively
vulnerable,
thin and wincheable cable which is vulnerable to wear and mechanical
misadventure.Â* I'm sure you knew that.
How could that have caused the main 'unbreakable' cable to break?
And what has that to do with the emergency brake?
The puller cable snapped. The emergency brake should have clamped the
car to the support cable, except it had been disabled.
So, the cable car ran downhill on the support cable, until it reached
the pylon, doing around 100 kph, at which point it jumped off the
support cable.
Ah, so the 'unbreakable' cable didn't break'. the car - supposed also
to have things to stop it happing, jumped off it...
Sorry I am oddly uninterested in this whole incident after my comment
in the DE that 'this is what comes of employing coke sniffing pop
stars instead of competent engineers' was disabled.
The ones that disabled the safety brake were engineers.
Unlikely. They will have been mechanics or technicians - Engineers would
understand the safety aspects.
We weren't there; the technicians may have disabled the safety brake so the
*empty* car could have been moved to a safe parking position. It may have
been a purely management decision to use it for passengers.
--
Roger Hayter