Three years after the cable car accident on Mount Jested in Liberec, Czech Republic, near the German border, the railroad supervisory authority has identified serious technical defects in its final report. When one of the two cabins crashed on October 31, 2021, a railroad employee died and property damage equivalent to almost 400,000 euros was caused. It was only by chance that there were no passengers in the accident cabin for 34 passengers.
The immediate cause of the accident was the breakage of a train cable, some of the wires of which showed considerable corrosion. As a result, the cabin slid uncontrollably downhill. An automatic emergency braking system should have prevented this. However, this had been removed in the past, contrary to legal regulations and the technical documentation.
