I was pointing out the lied by NBC. Lack of PTC was not the cause of the 2015 train crash what so ever.
In the derailment, New York-bound Amtrak train No. 188 was traveling at 106 miles an hour, twice the speed limit, through a tight curve in an area known as Frankford Junction.
Investigators said they concluded the train’s engineer, Brandon Bostian, was distracted by radio transmissions about an emergency involving a nearby commuter train that had been struck by a rock, shattering the locomotive’s windshield.
By the time Mr. Bostian accelerated the Amtrak train just before the crash, “he had lost situational awareness, an awareness of where he currently was, and believed that he was at a location farther down the track where it was appropriate to accelerate his train to 106 mph,” NTSB investigator Stephen Jenner told safety board members at a meeting to discuss the crash.