Posted on 02/10/2016 1:40:26 PM PST by BenLurkin
Authorities are trying to determine why multiple safety measures failed, allowing two trains to travel on the same single-line track and smash into each other in Bad Aibling in Bavaria on Tuesday morning. They are considering both possible technical errors and human failure.
At the scene, 40 miles southeast of Munich, a huge crane was brought in Wednesday to start moving away the wreckage from the tracks - a job the German news agency dpa reported would take two days. About 100 emergency workers are helping with the removal.
On the investigation front, the German transport ministry said both the government's train accident investigation office and local prosecutors are looking into the cause of the crash.
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Asked about third-party actions that might have led to the accident, she said, "I can only say there are no indications of this yet, but the investigation is still ongoing."
Police spokesman Juergen Thalmeier warned reporters in Bad Aibling not to jump to early conclusions. While the train dispatcher had already been interrogated, that did not mean he was necessarily under suspicion.
German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt told German news channel n-tv that one black box has already been examined and that based on this analysis there seem to have been no technical problem, but that investigators have not yet finished their overall evaluation.
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Has anyone pinged Willie Greene for his opinion?
How can this be anything but human error?
>>> How can this be anything but human error?
Depending on the person involved, it could be human “intent”, not “error.”
Any surveillance footage of Muzzie ‘refugees’ playing with the tracks, switches and sensors? I wanna know the names of the train operators.
Sabotage?
Sabotage?
It's not an error if it is intentional. Krauts are doing all they can to keep from saying 'allah akbar'. Or should we say Skandor Akbar?
TRAIN ENGNEER: “Allllahuuuu Akhbarrrrrrrr TOOOOOT-TOOOOOOOOOT”
Were drivers or dispatchers named Mohamed or Abdul?
I smell the stench of jihad.
I suspect a bug in the train control software. You can’t test every combination of events, so it is possible that an unusual sequence of events caused the system to act incorrectly.
“Driving that train, high on cocaine, Casey Jones you better watch your speed”
Pull the logging records from the interlocking and see where it thinks the trains where.
Mystery solved...
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