I have to admit, I’m interested in knowing the details of this too.
Looks like a suicide by train event to me.
You can’t be going 106 mph and not realize it, when the actual speed limit is around half that.
The two money facts for me are, in chronological order, that the train was accelerated by human action, and the brake was applied by human action. (He was also healthy enough to realize the excessive speed.)
Conversely, if engineer boy was healthy enough to apply the brake, he was healthy enough to accelerate the train.
So what was his motive, before he forgot it?
And, why is the media covering up the angles on this guy, preferring to chase butterflies over there, having to do with FUNDING. Ridiculous.
You can if your sense of awareness is impaired by a drug, or by some naturally occurring illness or condition.
BTW, would anyone know what injuries this train engineer suffered in the crash? If he had severe head trauma, his loss of memory could be real, but otherwise it's probably a cop-out to avoid serious legal implications.
” Looks like a suicide by train event to me.
You can’t be going 106 mph and not realize it,”
B I N G O
“You can’t be going 106 mph and not realize it, when the actual speed limit is around half that.”
The latest on the speed is, it was going 70 mph, then when just before the curve, it sped up to 106, then he put on the emergency brake which likely helped the train to leave the track.
I saw on CNN today, the inside of such a train, with an engineer at the controls to describe how those controls worked. The reporter asked the question if the lever controlling speed could be accidently pushed into more speed. The engineer said it would be very difficult for that to happen. He had demonstrated how to use the lever to make the train go faster, but it takes moving more levelers than that one at the same time to make it go faster.
For me, that pretty much takes “accidental” out of the question as to what happened.
Probability of that is quite small. Most suicides don't kill others, especially a group of strangers. But this Bostian might have been "influenced" by the recent suicide by plane crash by the German co-pilot. Or even the suicide by air crash by the 9/11 hijackers or the Japanese kamikazes in WWII.
But even though a suicide attempt by the engineer is improbable as an explanation for the train derailment, it is still a more likely explanation for the recent incident than "suicide" was for the 1993 death of Vince Foster! (In other words, the probability that Vince Foster's death was a suicide is just about ZERO.)