Castellammare di Stabia – The most delicate phase of the investigation into the Mottarone di Faito cable car tragedy began this morning with the roar of the blades of a Fire Brigade Drago helicopter: the recovery of the cabin undercarriage that crashed into the steep slope of Mount Faito on April 17, 2025, taking four lives with it.
Four dead – the driver of the funivia and three tourists—and a fourth seriously injured: this is the toll of an accident that still cries out for vengeance today. Exactly eight months after the disaster, the preliminary investigations judge of the Torre Annunziata Court ordered a comprehensive investigation into the wreckage, with an evidentiary hearing scheduled for June 23, 2025, to determine whether the brakes, the towing cable, the safety system, or—as the Prosecutor's Office suspects—a lethal combination of poor maintenance and reckless decisions failed.
Today, under the watchful eye of the judge-appointed experts and the parties' consultants (including those under investigation), firefighters from the Naples Provincial Command and the Pontecagnano Helicopter Unit completed the first, extremely delicate phase: the trailer was harnessed, lifted from the cliff, and transported by land to the Military Spolettificio in Torre Annunziata, where it will remain stored in facilities made available by the Army.
In the next few days, weather permitting, it will be the turn of the actual cabin and the connecting pylon. An operation bordering on the impossible: the cabin was lying halfway up the hill, in a jungle of brambles and unstable rocks.
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Before they could get close to the wreckage, firefighters had to clear hectares of vegetation, dislodge loose rocks, and erect scaffolding and ladders to create a safe corridor to the impact site. Only then was it possible to cut the pylon and attach the trailer. The artifact is now under lock and key.
The court's experts and the defense consultants will finally have the "heart" of the cable car in their hands to understand what transformed a normal panoramic ride into a fall of over 300 meters.
For the investigated – including managers and technicians from the EAV company that manages the plant – is the beginning of a crucial game: those pieces of metal could provide proof of responsibility or, conversely, an alibi that exonerates. The mountain, for now, has given up its macabre secret. Justice has yet to pronounce its verdict.
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