Posted on 06/02/2015 10:53:42 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Investigators looking into last month’s deadly Amtrak derailment have found “no anomalies” in the tracks, signals or breaking systems of train #188, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board released Tuesday, underscoring the key outstanding question of their ongoing inquiry: Why did the locomotive speed into a sharp Philadelphia curve at 106 miles an hour?
The NTSB said it is continuing its examination of engineer Brandon Bostian’s cell phone records. Bostian, who said he cannot recall the events shortly before the crash, reported to the NTSB that his phone was in a bag at the time of the derailment.
“Investigators are in the process of correlating the time stamps in the engineer’s cell phone records with multiple data sources including the locomotive event recorder, the locomotive outward facing video, recorded radio communications, and surveillance video,” the NTSB said Tuesday.
The text message and voice logs have time stamps from different time zones, and there are technical inconsistencies, the NTSB says, accounting for the delays in coming up with a clear timeline to determine if the phone was in use while the Bostian was operating the train. Bostian has cooperated with the inquiry, including providing his cell phone password, according to the NTSB.
Eight people were killed and 200 were taken to hospitals following the accident that occurred on a night with 82-degree weather, a gentle 20 mph breeze, “clear skies and good visibility,” according the NTSB.
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Queers lied, people died.
Yep, the Breaking System worked just fine....
He was clearly on the phone or texting when this happened. I don’t know why they’re trying to protect him.
The engineer in that horrible crash in Spain (at Santiago de Compostela, where some 80 people were killed) last year was also on the phone when he took the curve about twice as fast as it should have been taken. He walked away, of course, just like this guy - minor injuries, and nobody could find him immediately after the crash. His first words were the Spanish equivalent “ooops, I screwed up,” which I’m sure is what our dear Brian said.
But since Brian is evidently a big gay activist, I guess it will never be his fault.
“correlating the time stamps” takes about 5 hours, not
5 weeks ... except if there is a queer coverup attempt.
It doesn’t seem to be THAT difficult to know if the engineer was on his cell a the time of the crash.
Why would it take so long to determine something that simple?
They know the time of the crash, and the cell records must not be that hard to get... what’s the hold up?
Some guy on the radio who is also an engineer called in and said it is common for some of these “yahoos” to speed, even around turns.
BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH
Why don’t they just put: It fell off the track, nothing to see here, move on. Not terrorism. Go back to watching americanidiot and the carcrashyions.
“no anomalies”
Only anomaly was in the engineers seat...He needs to be charged with negligent homocide
Laz- is that You?
DON’T LET THE TRAIN LAND!!!
I still suspect Tomato Brian
The report I heard was that he actually, intentionally ramped up the speed going into the turn.
Sounds to me like a suicide from an already admittedly mentally unstable individual.
I suspect that Brianmay have been trolling the Leather Boys..web forum
I agree that comparing times from different clocks can be nontrivial, but given the necessary lead times here ~15 sec to brake from 100 to 60, they should have a darned good idea of whether this noncisengineer was distracting himself or not.
A...I'm Queer.
Q...Oh, OK, then never mind, we have no further questions. Sorry to have troubled you.
I could have done without that image in my head;)
BREAKING system? What happened to the editors?
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