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 trains 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.
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Remember the TWA flight? The one with the center fuel problem?
What if it was terrorism and there really was an explosion? Would the government tell us?
The only reason they admitted to terrorism on 9/11 was because they couldn’t cover up 4 hijacked planes.
So...what does the onboard camera show ?
Well, many people don’t. I design electrical systems, but I was a busboy in college. Many college students work crap jobs.
Levin just said he had been doing that route for five years.
there an onboard camera?
The phone records going to be released or something along that line, so getting a cover story before those hit. Friday news dump
Wouldn’t radio comm be recorded so this alleged transmission could be confirmed or denied? And If this transmission occurred, the receiver should be able to confirm.
Im certain that Mark got that facts straight before “announcing” them. Yes
I bet it turn up ‘disabled’?
Regardless, cannot we agree that one criteria to be labeled a “good train engineer” is that you don’t crash your train? And kill a bunch of people in the process?
Off topic, what kinds of electrical systems do you work on, radio, computer, power...?
I would suspect that any interchanges would have been recorded..but that doesnt mean we will ever know what was “dicussed”.
Hold mah Panther Whizz and watch this.
And that other Amtrack employee hasn’t seen fit to report it to the authorities since Tuesday.
Until now we have this one person overheard Brandon Bostians conversation on the radio. Which made headline news.
Right.
Yes. At least two cams. One facing forward.
Would the government tell us? Fat Chance!
planning an attack to make a dangerous curve part of the accepted scenario sounds islamic to me
*snort*
“The strike over putting firemen back in the engines will come later this year”
The RR’s paid off the unions to get them removed. They paid off based on seniority.
The money was to make up for the extra work over the future years of employment.
My BIL was very happy to get the fat check ... till I told him the unions ripped him off.
He had many years to go before retirement and got the ‘small’ check. The dude retiring the next month got the ‘big’ check!
ahahahah ZOOOOM
I agree, he seems to be at fault. Something hitting the train seems meaningless to me. He was still going 106mph.
I work in the power industry.
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