this should erase all earlier mental images...
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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The engineer AND the spinning scribe and its editors are on break.
MUST CLEANSE NOW!
(I just finished lunch, now I'll go toss it...)
no more nagging images of either brucette jenner? or the toothy woman?
see... I knew it would work!!
Is it the 2nd ‘magic bullet’ incident?
guy was probably sleeping, and woke up just in time to hit the brakes when he realized he was gong that fast
guy was probably sleeping, and woke up just in time to hit the brakes when he realized he was gong that fast
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OR...he was doing a “GermanWings” type of suicide attempt and chickened out at the last instant and tried to brake.
I've read other posts that those in-the-know say the easiest way to cause a derailment is to accelerate and then brake hard into a corner - causes the train to accordion and derail. I think he meant to crash, and didn't mean to survive the carnage.
My guess is that he was either pleasuring himself or photographing himself—maybe both—and that be the proximate cause of this multiple murder.
All this correlation with the event recorder, video, radio, surveillance, etc., is only relevant if his readily available text records show use very close to the time of the crash—and such use of course would be completely against protocol.
More Positive Train Control! More homo activist “locomotive attendants”!
In my little world of Point Of Sale software, our system warns a user if their local device is more than 5 minutes out of sync with their primay server, because errors under 5 minutes on hamburger receipts are not a deal breaker...
Also, as noted by Paladin2, input and reaction times on a train are quite different than small vehicles we would be used to in daily life...
But, if you are in charge of an investigation that could result in criminal charges, you are going to be as methodical and careful as you can, so that when you release your findings, there will be little to no doubt as to the events in the timeline. (at least you should be, you could be a prosecutor from Baltimore...)
Yeah, but cell phone clocks and texting records should be accurate, and certainly they should know very closely the time of the crash.
Again, they wouldn’t be futzing around with syncing everything else up carefully, if he didn’t have his cell in active use very close to the crash.
Now that makes sense.
Maybe his “boyfriend” was breaking up with him and he went on a suicidal rampage.
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