Three and a half years after the steel cable accident on the Goldeck in Carinthia, the lawsuits are about to start: mountain railways want compensation from the republic, as do the relatives of the killed employee.
The accident happened in April 2019: employees of the mountain railways were carrying out maintenance work on the tensioning system of the middle station. In particular, the suspension cable between the trestles was loosened in centimeters to relieve the load – but the trestles were torn from their anchorage, the steel cable shot up and killed a man. What could have caused such a force?
Suspicion soon fell on a Federal Army Herkules transport plane, which had been sighted by witnesses over the Goldeck. The C-130 may have caused turbulence and ripped the steel cable out of the guide.
Plaintiff: opinion incorrect
But this theory was rejected by the Klagenfurt prosecutor’s office last year, as reported. But neither the Goldeck mountain railways nor the victim’s family will accept that. They assume that the report is incorrect – among other things, an overflight is also excluded because witnesses would often be wrong about distances in the air and the Herkules was detected on the Villach radar, not on the Goldeck.
Mountain railways and the survivors of the dead have since filed damages claims against the military; Both proceedings were supposed to start on October 14 with Judge Sarah Ritzmaier at the Klagenfurt Regional Court, but were postponed until the end of November.
Source: Krone
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