Posted on 05/17/2015 10:33:10 AM PDT by dragnet2
Full title: NTSB Investigator: ‘Nothing at All’ Heard From Amtrak Train Engineer Communications to Suggest Train Hit by Projectile
There was no communication between the derailed Amtrak train engineer to the dispatch center to suggest that a projectile had hit the ill-fated train, National Transportation Safety Board lead investigator Robert Sumwalt said.
“We interviewed the dispatchers and we listened to the dispatch tape, and we heard no communications at all from the Amtrak engineer to the dispatch center to say that something had struck his train,”
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
He’s White.
The media protects its own kind...
The train engineer is White, probably a homosexual, but very white.
How long before the curve had the train been running at 100+ mph?
There is a hell of a lot of invention being applied to the storytelling here. If the windshield of the train were hit by an RPG, then OK, I would expect some sort of in-cab reaction by the engineer.
If the train was going a nominal 50-60 mph, never mind 106 mph, then something impacting the front of the train or the side of the train or even the windshield of the train does not explain the sudden acceleration of the train going into the fatal curve. If you’ve ever been in a car on the freeway going 55+ mph and something falls off a vehicle in front of you...it happens so fast there is no time to react.
With the exceptional case of the projectile hitting the engineer, he falls over and pushes some sort of lever and gooses the train, this story stinks. That the train could accelerate from 75 mph to over 100 mph I find remarkable, but these electric train that are powered from a caternary are massively powerful.
Hmmm! ISIS? They did threaten a catastrophic occurrence?
The morning following the derailment,
Keene was lauded by other survivors as a passenger turned heroic rescuer on that derailed Amtrak train.
Not discussed further but worthy of mentioning again, this officer specifically stated he was returning home from DC having attended certain events related to honoring our nation's law enforcement officers as described online:
National Officer Safety And Wellness Awards To Be Presented At Chairman's Dinner Event During National Police Week Washington, May 12, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Late last year, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and BJA's VALOR officer safety initiative, launched the Destination Zero Project to highlight agency-level achievements in the area of officer safety and wellness. The primary objective of the program is to drive down causal factors that kill and injure law enforcement officers, and to help officers live safer, happier, healthier lives. The result of this project will culminate with presentation of the inaugural National Officer Safety and Wellness Awards at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund's annual Chairman's Dinner on Tuesday, May 12, 2015.
Begs the question...given the current politically charged 'anti-police' climate...were these 'police related' events and the timing of attending officers departure via Amtrak, merely coincidence - given multiple reports of 'projectiles' reaching trains travelling in that same location ?
Partial transcript from Fox & Friends video clip mentioned above:
Fox&Friends: 'It's My Job' Heroic Police Officer Reacts After Helping Train Crash Victims
I understand you had just gotten on the train at Philadelphia's 30th street station. Why were you in Wa....why were you down there?
I was actually ..I was coming home, I got on the train at Washington DC. I was in Washington over the weekend. I took part in the Police Unity Tour [link].We arrived at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial[link] yesterday morning and I was on my way home from there.
SEPTA officials say there is no connection between the two.
[See Point 3]3. The Train May Have Been Struck By Something Before the Crashwhich discusses twitter feeds with mentions of multiple trains with projectile contact
Just before Tuesday's deadly Amtrak derailment, both a SEPTA commuter train and another Amtrak train in the same corridor were hit by projectiles, one which crashed through the engineer's window.An Amtrak spokesman could not be reached regarding Amtrak Acela Train 2173, which passengers said was struck by a projectile at about 9:10 p.m. according to a SEPTA spokeswoman, who said there is no indication the incident is connected to the derailment, which happened at about 9:30 p.m.
Trains have always been targets for projectiles. young boys have thrown rocks at trains since there were trains at which to throw rocks. In modern times when children never become adults, older boys probably still throw rocks at trains in those intervals when they are out of their parents’ basements.
Verbal collision with an attorney caused him to lose his memory.
Projectile came up when a conductor mentioned having heard reference to it on a radio call.
He has Hillary Clinton Syndrome. “I don’t recall”.
Queers lied, people died.
His lawyer must have told him to tell the media this BS story that something hit the train.
What ever impacts that hit the train happened AFTER or while the train in the process of derailing.
Germanwings all over again.
The queer engineer is lying.
A good investigator or trial lawyer can or could catch him in a lie that he doesn’t remember what happened before, during and after the accident.
A good criminal interigator could get the truth out of him, perhaps play the communication tapes to show he was well aware of what was going on in the engine, or the black box data...
What’s troubling is the F.B.I. is saying one thing, but yet ? The N.T.S.B. ( who has more professional experience of investigating accidents than the F.B.I. ) is saying a totally different thing, their stories conflict each other.
thank you!
BINGO !!
but a good criminal interagator will get the truth out of him especially if it’s proven that he was coherant and aware of what was going on from the black box data or communications between the dispatcher and the engineer right before the accident.
They said the hole was fist-sized (their words). You don’t suppose...
Thanks I was just going to post this.
There no way for a passenger or anyone to get inside the engineer while it’s in motion.
There are no doors or entry way into the engine from the passenger section of the train.
The only way for anyone to have gotten onto the engine was at the station or leaped onto the engine while going slow in the yards outside the train station.
“He’s white.”
My bad.
I’ve seen him on the evening news several times, and he looks Black to me.
On the other hand, I lived in Philadelphia for three years and, in consequence of that miserable experience, everyone there looks Black to me.
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