The phantom butt-dialer strikes again!
Seems a bit queer for the Conductor to hide those
records since the ‘phone was in the lock box’
according to his liar.
Might not his employer provide incentive for speeding? This would make more sense than blaming a speed-happy engineer.
Reports today are that investigators found that the operator sped up the train from 70 mph to over 100 mph one minute prior to entering the curve.
I personalty believe more now that this was a suicide attempt.
Post#4
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3289719/posts?page=12
Amtrak Train Was Gaining Speed as It Approached Curve: NTSB
By M. Alex Johnson
Sumwalt said investigators had been able to piece together a timeline of the moments leading up to the derailment based on the train’s track image recorder, which is at the front of the locomotive.
One minute and five seconds before the recording ends, the train was traveling at 70 mph — and then it sped up, he said:
At 43 seconds before the recording ends, the train was up to 80 mph.
Twelve seconds later, it hit 90 mph.
And 15 seconds after that, it topped 100 mph, before engineer Brandon Bostian engaged the emergency brake.
“Mere seconds into the turn, we could see the train tilting approximately 10 degrees to the right and then the recording went blank,” Sumwalt said.
“Eight people were killed and over 200 were injured when Northeast Regional 188 derailed shortly after leaving Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station bound for New York. The National Transportation Safety Board revealed Thursday that the train had sped up from 70 mph until it reached more than 100 mph at a sharp bend where the maximum speed is supposed to be 50 mph.”
Find out if he was entertaining a guest in the engineer’s cab when he approached the scene of the crash at 106 mph.
Who was in the engine.with him? Which of the other four employees. was his friend?
Republicans fault. If they would have spent more money on this boondoggle the accident never would have happened and the unicorns would still be jumping.
Pray America is waking
Checking to see if the lad was setting up brunch for the weekend via text. I would think this would be a part of DOT regs, and that the engineer would be required to allow access immediately, like a drug test
Note to self: Add that to the next union contract.
The train engineer speed up from 70 to 106mph then applied the brake when he shouldn’t have as it would cause the derailment for sure if the speed did not.
I say throw him under an oncoming train.