Amid the devastation of Lisbon’s fatal funicular crash, an extraordinary story has emerged that has offered a moment of hope in an otherwise tragic week. A German father who was initially feared dead has been confirmed alive and receiving hospital treatment, shortly after his young son was miraculously rescued from the wreckage. The sequence of […]
Photographs showing a British couple smiling together shortly before a fatal accident have become a powerful symbol of the human loss behind the Lisbon funicular tragedy. Kayleigh Gillian Smith and her partner William Nelson were among the sixteen people who died when a historic funicular carriage derailed in the heart of the Portuguese capital. What […]
A preliminary report into last month’s funicular crash in Lisbon that killed 16 people has detailed a litany of failings. Portugal’s Air and Rail Accident Investigations Bureau said an underground cable – which acted as a counterweight between two carriages and broke, causing the crash – was defective and had never been certified for passenger […]
The cable that snapped on the Lisbon funicular, causing a crash that killed 16 people, was not certified for use in public transport, an official investigation has found. Three Britons were among the dead after a carriage derailed, careered down a steep hill and ploughed into the side of a hotel in the heart of the Portuguese capital last […]
