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To: Perdogg

Flashback:

Spain Train Crash Conductor Was Using Phone

Investigators Say Train Was Traveling at Nearly Twice Speed Limit

MADRID—A Spanish train driver was talking on his work cellphone and traveling at nearly twice the recommended speed when the train derailed on a tight curve last week, in Spain’s worst rail accident since the 1940s.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323854904578637961496514342


12 posted on 12/01/2013 8:41:05 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

The Illinois Central Officially said
He’s a good engineer to be lying there dead.

(Actually, the ICRR investigation of the wreck a Vaughn, MS in 1900 scapegoated Casey Jones and whitewashed other actors. Many historians believe that Jones may have been the least culpable of those involved.)


21 posted on 12/01/2013 9:46:30 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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