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Engineers noticed brake faults when the service reopened after lockdown but chose not to carry out repairs  A temporary fork device was installed in the brakes to keep the service running and avoid delays But the device kept apart the emergency brakes, causing them to fail on Sunday when the cable snapped Three people at the cable car company have been arrested on manslaughter charges overnight Sole survivor Eitan Biran, five, was placed in a coma after suffering head injuries and a broken leg His parents, two-year-old brother and great-grandparents were killed in the crash 

Eitan Biran is in intensive care in a Turin hospital following Sunday's fatal crash The incident killed all other 14 passengers and left Eitan in a critical condition The young boy is now stable and an MRI scan revealed no signs of brain damage  Doctors said the young boy was saved by his father Amit's protective embrace Amit, his wife Tal, their other son Tom and Tal's grandparents all died on Sunday The cause of the crash near the summit of the Mottarone mountain is believed to have been a snapped cable, brake malfunction, or both Investigations into the exact cause of the horrific incide...

Investigators probed the causes Monday of a terrifying cable car crash in the Italian mountains that left 14 people dead, including five Israelis, and a young child fighting for life. The five-year-old boy remained in hospital, the only survivor of Sunday's accident on the summit of Mottarone mountain in the northwest Piedmont region, with a hospital official saying the next two days were critical. The cable car crashed to the ground after a...

22 Feb, 2021 Undetected corrosion is often the failure mechanism of post tensioned bridge collapses, such as that of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa. It is these hidden defects which often belie the apparent integrity of bridges. Unfortunately, the required inspection programme in its traditional form is time consuming and limited in its methodology.  Restrictive possession times for inspections also compound the situation because the traditional methodology is slow and out-dated which often results in hidden defects remaining undetected. A more  comprehensive approach has been overdue for m...

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