Posted on 10/03/2016 10:39:11 AM PDT by ColdOne
The locomotive's recorder has information on train speed.
National Transportation Safety Board vice chair T. Bella Dinh-Zarr said she's hopeful the data recorder in the cab control car in the front of the train is functional. Investigators haven't been able to extract that recorder because it's under a collapsed section of the train station's roof.
Dinh-Zarr said the train's engineer told investigators the train was operating properly before it crashed Thursday morning. The engineer also said the train was operating at 10 mph as it approached the station. He told investigators he has no memory of the accident.
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Paging Dagney Taggart...
OK...so the engineer has no memory of the crash and the black box didn’t work. Isn’t that the same thing that we heard following the crash in Philadelphia a couple of years ago?
LOL! Perfect graphic.
The engineer can remember the train was operating properly,
and even the speed it was moving at
but the guy says he can't remember the accident.
I don't believe his memory loss story.
Of course.
“I can’t recall” ... sounds like Hillary
Without the black box evidence the National Transportation Safety Board can’t even be sure there was a train wreck.
Apparently neither were the brakes...
I haven’t been following this too closely, but early on, there were witness reports that the Engineer appeared to have been slumped down over the controls as the train came into the station. Between that and the scale of the impact, I’m willing to give the engineer the benefit of the doubt for now; possible medical event, and even if not there’s still the possibility of injury from the crash.
“Well, now that we have this cleared up, let’s get more Americans taking mass transit.”
Love, Hillary
Please do not allow this train incident to undermine your faith in the reliability of public transportation.
F=Ma Force = Mass X acceleration.
A= (V-V0)t acceleration = (Final velocity - initial velocity)/time
F=M ((Final velocity - initial velocity)/time)
The engine alone weights 100 tons. Each rail car about 50 tons. say 1 engine and 10 cars = 600 tons
600 tons traveling at 10mph can go through just about anything.
Not good
The 10mph story is not believable.
The train was going faster then 10mph.
The engineer was negligent.
He was probably distracted on his cell phone
texting, or playing some game or else drunk or
asleep. He's going to have to come clean eventually.
Call in Comey. He’ll get to the bottom of it.
“Please do not allow this train incident to undermine your faith in the reliability of public transportation.”
Mine was undermined decades ago. The people hired to operate ground transportation aren’t qualified to do so. They are union idiots.
Was his “mind in blender” was it “like Jell-O”?
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