> Have to read it with time, however as Portuguese I imagine the service done during the same day of the tragedy was as always in our culture, "good enough" and to move on.

Coming from the same country as you, I totally understand. However, in this particular case the maintenance seems to have been done as it was supposed to be.

The problem seems to be that the cable broke at the anchoring point underneath the cabin, already underground. This is hidden from view during a normal daily inspection, where someone goes underground and checks the whole cable during a round trip of the cabin. They check the free cable going through pulleys and a flywheel, but they can't see inside the attachment point where the cable meets the cabin. This is only done in more thorough inspections, which do not happen daily.

Now, why it broke exactly at that point is probably related to how it was installed and not so much poor quality of the cable itself. Although some manufacturing issue could also be related.

We will have to wait and see, but like you said, several innocent people are dead. Hopefully in this case it wasn't down to our culture of "it's good enough, let's move on", which indeed, unfortunately, is part of our history. The least we can do now is find the real causes and make it safer in the future.

Thanks for the overview, living abroad I don't follow all details, as close as I would being there.