Retrofitting the clamps on the Titlis cable car gondolas would not have prevented the fatal crash of a gondola last week, according to the Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board. Every system is at its limit in strong winds, it said. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "It's pure physics and geometry," Philipp Thürler, the responsible division head at the investigation board, told the Swiss News Agency Keystone-SDA on Monday. He thus confirmed corresponding statements in the SRF Tagesschau programme on Sunday evening. Thürler told Swiss public television SRF that adjustments to the clamping mechanism would not improve safety. "If the wind speed is too high, a gondola comes off its normal axis and can crash into parts of the installation or get caught on rope catchers and be torn from the hoisting rope." In the accident on the Titlis on Wednesday, a 61-year-old woman died in the falling gondola. The gondola had detached from the cable between Trübsee ...
