A cable that broke in September’s deadly funicular crash in Lisbon was not certified to carry people and failed to meet the operator’s specifications, according to interim findings from authorities, reported by CNN Portugal.
The crash killed at least 16 people and injured several others after a steel cable connecting the historic Glória funicular’s two cars snapped, a preliminary investigation found.
The cable failed shortly after the cars began their journeys along Calçada da Glória, the narrow street where the funicular operates.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing one of the railway’s two cars derailing and careening down the street before hitting a building. One man, whose…
