Rail Workers’ Union head Omar Maturano confirmed that engine’s driver Marco Antonio Córdoba testified before judge Claudio Bonadio that the accident that killed 51 people was due to a brake failure.
«Out union fellow said that the brakes failed,” Maturano said during an interview with a local radio show.
Meanwhile, TBA, the company that operates the Sarmiento line, rejected the version of Córdoba through an official communiqué saying “The train completed the journey without having received any communication reporting anomalies or technical issues.»
Furthermore, the communiqué remarks that “The reading of the deceleration and braking systems activated during the previous train station stops were normal.”
However, Maturano said that when Córdoba «triggered the emergency brake, the system only received a compression that equals one kilogram instead of two and a half kilos which is the standard braking compression.”
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