{"id":4288,"date":"2025-09-06T21:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/4288\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T21:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:11:06","slug":"lisbon-funicular-cable-disconnected-before-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/4288\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisbon funicular cable disconnected before crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

A cable linking two cabins disconnected shortly before the funicular crash that killed 16 people in Lisbon this week, hours after the cable had passed a visual check, accident inspectors said.<\/p>\n

The information came in a note on Wednesday’s accident published by Portugal’s air and rail accident investigations bureau (GPIAAF).<\/p>\n

“According to the evidence observed so far, the scheduled maintenance plan was up to date, and a scheduled visual inspection had been conducted on the morning of the accident, which detected no anomalies in the vehicles’ cable or braking systems,” said the agency note.<\/p>\n

But it had not been possible to visually inspect the condition of the section of the cable where it separated from the vehicle before the crash, it added.<\/p>\n

According to the initial findings of the investigators, the funicular crashed<\/a> at a speed of 60 kilometres an hour.<\/p>\n

The whole incident happened in just 50 seconds, they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cable linking two cabins disconnected shortly before the funicular crash that killed 16 people in Lisbon this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-4288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}