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Amtrak Train May Have Been Struck Before It Derailed, Officials Say
New Yoirk Times ^ | May 15, 2015 | DAVE PHILIPPS and EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS

Posted on 05/15/2015 4:20:44 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey

PHILADELPHIA — An assistant conductor on the Amtrak train that derailed on Tuesday believes she heard the engineer tell another regional train operator in a radio transmission that the train had been struck by something just before the accident, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

At a news conference on Friday, Robert L. Sumwalt, the safety board official who is leading the investigation, said the F.B.I. had been asked to examine what he described as a fist-size impact area found on the lower left side of the train’s windshield. Officials said that the F.B.I. had been called in because it has the forensics expertise needed for the investigation, but that it had not yet begun its analysis.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: amtrak; amtrakinvestigation; derailment; philadelphia; train; trainwreck
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1 posted on 05/15/2015 4:20:44 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
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To: MeshugeMikey

Right. It was struck by some kind of projectile that made it accelerate to 106 mph in a 50-mph zone. WTF?


2 posted on 05/15/2015 4:22:06 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ( "It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: Alberta's Child

Good question. Very good question.


3 posted on 05/15/2015 4:23:01 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Alberta's Child

Good catch! ;-)


4 posted on 05/15/2015 4:23:43 PM PDT by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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To: MeshugeMikey

An Airbus, perhaps?


5 posted on 05/15/2015 4:24:24 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

bird strike.


6 posted on 05/15/2015 4:24:33 PM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Francis)
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To: MeshugeMikey

The strike over putting firemen back in the engines will come later this year


7 posted on 05/15/2015 4:25:04 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: left that other site

a high powered rifle drone


8 posted on 05/15/2015 4:25:06 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Gotta protect the ‘crotch watcher’. Ruins the narrative.


9 posted on 05/15/2015 4:25:21 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Why are they so invested in concocting a falsity, because the conductor is gay?

It makes no difference if something hit the train.

The train was going over twice the speed the curve in that part of the track was designed to handle. It was going to derail regardless if something hit the train first.


10 posted on 05/15/2015 4:25:32 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MeshugeMikey; Alberta's Child

Lot of that going around:

SEPTA Says Commuter Train Hit By Projectile Just Before Amtrak Train Derailed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3289394/posts


11 posted on 05/15/2015 4:25:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: MeshugeMikey

It’s a simple math problem. At 106 mph the chances of hitting a random flying object are double what you could hit at 53 mph.


12 posted on 05/15/2015 4:26:00 PM PDT by soycd
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To: bert

Id hope so.

they either have to get it right or fold up their tents and call it a day


13 posted on 05/15/2015 4:26:00 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Correction:
An ASSAULT high powered rifle drone.


14 posted on 05/15/2015 4:26:11 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Alberta's Child

If something hit the front of the train, at best, it would have slowed it down a bit, not accelerated it.


15 posted on 05/15/2015 4:26:25 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I’m not saying it was aliens.


16 posted on 05/15/2015 4:26:46 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Odd how we had aldready read about the impact of the projectile so far in advance of this “news” isnt it


17 posted on 05/15/2015 4:27:13 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The cover up starts.


18 posted on 05/15/2015 4:27:21 PM PDT by magua
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To: 9thLife

Big BIrd!


19 posted on 05/15/2015 4:27:33 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Alberta's Child
Right. It was struck by some kind of projectile that made it accelerate to 106 mph in a 50-mph zone. WTF?

Damn that Superman and his practical jokes, it's all funny til the train derails and people die! I wonder what the next excuse for the engineer will be?

20 posted on 05/15/2015 4:28:05 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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