Microsoft Azure: "Multiple international subsea cables were cut in the Red Sea" (azure.status.microsoft)

A very unfortunate fatal accident for those involved. It is a sad outcome caused in part by the failsafe mechanisms not being designed situations where the cable broke the way it did. I hope these can be re-engineered to overcome such failures.

I only recently learned what a funicular was thanks to the diagnonal elevators in video games series of YouTube videos by sync-on-luna:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2oELc61XHE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5EHBoU6Ps4

vascocosta · 25m ago

Hopefully that's what this investigation will lead to. Nice videos.

robocat · 39m ago

Key lines:

> the air brake and the manual brake were quickly applied by the brakeman of cab #1, but that in the current configuration, the brakes do not have sufficient capacity to stop the cabins in motion without their empty masses being mutually balanced by the connecting cable. Therefore, the existing brakes does not constitute a redundant system in case of a failure in the connecting cable.

DetroitThrow · 59s ago

So, the brakes would have never worked if connecting cables broke? And this specific failure has just never happened before? Jesus.

vascocosta · 2h ago

This is not a preliminary report yet, but presents interesting technical data, including a description of how the system works and a detailed timeline of what happened pointing towards the detachment of the balancing cable at the anchoring socket of the cabin that crashed.

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