Hours of anguish, with rescue operations complicated by the fog, and that cabin upstream from the Faito plant of which there is no further news, fueling the fear of a tragedy as time goes by.
A tragedy that actually occurred: 4 dead and one seriously injured is the toll of the accident that occurred on Mount Faito where, due to a broken cable, a cabin of the cableway that connects Castellammare di Stabia, in the province of Naples, with the summit, a breathtaking panorama at 1100 meters of the beauty of the Gulf, crashed to the ground, dragging with it five people, two couples of foreign tourists and the engineer on board, Carmine Parlato , a 59-year-old Eav employee.
The only survivor is a 30-year-old Israeli man, taken by helicopter to the Ospedale del Mare in Naples: his conditions are "critical". The passengers who boarded the cabin headed downstream were unharmed, however , as it remained suspended in midair about twenty meters above the ground until rescuers arrived and pulled the passengers out, harnessing them one by one. In their case, the safety brake worked, avoiding worse trouble.
The accident occurred shortly after 2:30 p.m. The news of the disaster was announced by the CEO of Eav, the Autonomous Body of Volturno that manages the cableway, Umberto De Gregorio: «The cabin upstream has fallen. There are fears of victims» the post on social media that arrived shortly after 6 p.m. and dashed all hope. Preceded a few minutes earlier by the announcement: «A tragedy».
The tourist facility - after the winter closure - had reopened its doors for the summer season only about ten days ago. The rescue machine moved in time but the search for the only missing person was complicated by bad weather and the blanket of fog on the summit of Faito, on the very day in which the Civil Protection declared a yellow weather alert starting at 2 pm due to the risk of storms.
