The maximum capacity of the Glory Elevator is 42 passengers (22 sitting and 20 standing), but according to the Express newspaper, they would be about 30 when the lift derailed and clashed in a building, victimizing 16 people.
The Glory Elevator was not crowded at the time of the accident, on the afternoon of last Wednesday, which killed 16 people. “Perhaps it wasn’t even so many passengers,” says a source close to the investigation, quoted by the newspaper .
The maximum capacity of the glory elevator centenary is 42 passengers (22 sitting and 20 standing), but they would only be about 30 when the lift derailed and stuffed in a building.
There are still no definitive conclusions about the causes of the accident and research work are still open.
According to Expresso, nine of the 16 corpses were transferred, some of them to the country of origin of the people who died. All mortal victims are identified.
