Posted on 12/31/2017 8:58:50 AM PST by oh8eleven
The National Transportation Safety Board investigating the accident, which killed three people and injured more than 50 others, is still trying to determine the probable cause and prevent such accidents in the future.
It appears that there were two people in the lead locomotive control cab of the train who were both injured and hospitalized: an instructor engineer, and another engineer who was learning the territory and qualifying to operate the train along the route.
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They did.
“I can’t believe you didn’t already know this.”
I did know that! My comment was rhetorical. I don’t know if you’ve ever been to Japan, but the local trains there have flip charts in front of the engineer, and he has to physically salute each instruction on the flip chart after he has saluted the trackside speed signs. All of it is set up to make sure that every change in speed is acknowledged multiple times. But its been a few years since I’ve been there, so maybe it’s all run by robotics at this juncture. The only reason they wouldn’t make that change is the make work jobs the manual system creates.
Do you realize what you just said? The WRITER of the article says THEY did not realize where they were (impossible to begin with). No one from the media has interviewed the 'engineers' who are in the hospital, so how would the author know what they 'thought' ?
Why haven't the engineers been allowed to talk to the media ?
Maybe it's because someone ordered them to keep the speed high until the very last second, in order to make the run ON TIME (and it was behind schedule and would have arrived LATE if it followed the speed limits).
That is why all we hear about this is 'crickets'. AMTRAK is covering up for someone (probably those who had the most money to lose) and to ward off the lawsuits against AMTRAK.
One morning the train would get up to speed, then stop. Kept happening a number of times, before the ride passed for normal.
I met a coworker getting off the same train, and he told me he was running late, so he headed to the second station down the line, to boarded there, at the front of the train. He said at a couple of stations down, an older subway worker joined the train operator in the cab, and there were no more unexpected stops.
We figured a newly authorized operator, tripping the speed limiter. Or at least unfamiliar with that line.
Only an Affirmative Action hire would be so stupid as to do 70 around a 30 mph curve.
Black Woman driver is my bet.
The Amtrak locomotives have cameras that show what the engine sees — that is, a forward-facing one — and there’s another camera to monitor the crew.
NTSB has already said they’ve reviewed the camera videos and found the crew were NOT using cellphones at the time.
All that being said, the bottom line IMO is there is no excuse for that train to do 80 miles an hour on that section of track. Ultimately, I believe the NTSB will have no choice but to find human error caused the accident.
Google Maps and GPS systems would not be adequate in detailing the forces that come into play. Hands on training, both day and night, is best way for engineers to learn the route. In this case it appears short cuts in training occurred. Not sure why the author of this article would think it “strange.” Most of us like short cuts.
Oh for petes sake! The line is mapped, you know your speed.
How hard is it to figure out your position on the line?
Were they engaged in some Gay relations?
I don’t know, if he or she are one of those with black privilege, they probably have one free derailment written into their employment contract.
“Don’t do that again or we’ll have to take serious action, like putting a stern warning letter in your file.”
Sure it’s best. But my point is that in an age of GPS it’s inconceivable that a train’s engineer would get “lost.”
GPS really makes location easy as pie these days.
I was watching a Netflix show the other day. Entirely fiction. Someone was kidnapped and buried alive. In the box she’s buried in she reaches her smartphone and calls the police. But she doesn’t know where she is. Has she ever heard of Google Maps?
My thought too taking it up the caboose
Cell phone check was made early on. They were not using any cell phones.
Maybe they were arguing over which would get the curve’s pokemon go first.
Dead Reconiing hell my pop taught that to me before i was ten and that was on the ocean not some track ez pee ze
But the exact time frame was never specified, just "right before". FWIW, I want specifics.
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
Your comments on this thread would give chuck schumer a run for his money.
When they loaded them into the ambulance....did they have their pants on?
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