Over two weeks since the deadly crash of the Glória funicular in Lisbon, PJ police were back at the site where 16 people lost their lives, and 22 more were injured, some critically.
The inspectors were carrying out new investigations – but according to some reports, this does not suggest there is any new evidence on this terrible incident.
The PJ arrived at the scene in the company of one public prosecutor and Nelson Rodrigues de Oliveira, the director of GPIAAF – the office of prevention and investigation into aircraft and railway accidents – which will shortly be presenting its preliminary report on what caused this tragedy .
Everything still points to the ‘wearing out’ of the cable ‘at its attachment point’ that connected the two passenger cabins.
But with so many ‘stories’ circulating, tabloid Correio da Manhã has run a new headline today, referring once again to the tender price ‘won’ by MNTC engineering services, or MAIN, saying that it was so low that the second in line, Liftech, actually complained, “defending that Carris should ask for clarification” on how the maintenance could be done for such a reduced price.
The jury, however, scrutinising bids “disagreed, and did not ask for further explanations from MNTC”, says the paper.
CM cites Liftech as saying that the “Value presented by MNTC (53.8% below the tender’s base price) was an abnormally low value, considering the scope of services presented under this tender”.
It is a point that saw Carris’ president Pedro Bogas quizzed intently earlier this week, at a meeting of Lisbon City Hall, and answers to subsequent questions posed to Carris by CM have not been answered, says the paper.
Source material: SIC/ Correio da Manhã
