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Mentally unfit gay Amtrak Engineer "Distracted By Radio" Before Deadly Derailment, NTSB Says
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May 27, 2016, 11:50:04 PM5/27/16
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The National Transportation Safety Board investigation into last
year's Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia has concluded that the
train's engineer was distracted by radio transmissions before
the crash, a federal official briefed on the findings told NPR.
A second source told NPR an official said only that the engineer
was distracted, but did not specify radio transmissions.
The crash on May 12, 2015 killed eight people and injured
hundreds of others when the train, going 106 miles per hours in
a 50 mile per hour zone, jumped the tracks. The train was
traveling from Washington, D.C., to New York.
As NPR's David Schaper reported last week, the year-long
investigation has yielded some answers so far:
"Investigators have ruled out brake, track, engine, and signal
failures as potential causes and are focusing on human error.
The train's engineer, 32-year old Brandon Bostian, could not
explain why he kept accelerating, telling investigators he
cannot remember the final moments before the crash. Drug and
alcohol testing came back negative and investigators determined
he hadn't been using his cell phone.
"Regardless of why the train was going too fast, the nation's
top railroad official says "this accident was preventable."
The NTSB is set to publicly report the findings at a public
meeting Tuesday.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-
way/2016/05/16/478306796/amtrak-engineer-distracted-by-radio-
before-deadly-derailment-ntsb-says
year's Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia has concluded that the
train's engineer was distracted by radio transmissions before
the crash, a federal official briefed on the findings told NPR.
A second source told NPR an official said only that the engineer
was distracted, but did not specify radio transmissions.
The crash on May 12, 2015 killed eight people and injured
hundreds of others when the train, going 106 miles per hours in
a 50 mile per hour zone, jumped the tracks. The train was
traveling from Washington, D.C., to New York.
As NPR's David Schaper reported last week, the year-long
investigation has yielded some answers so far:
"Investigators have ruled out brake, track, engine, and signal
failures as potential causes and are focusing on human error.
The train's engineer, 32-year old Brandon Bostian, could not
explain why he kept accelerating, telling investigators he
cannot remember the final moments before the crash. Drug and
alcohol testing came back negative and investigators determined
he hadn't been using his cell phone.
"Regardless of why the train was going too fast, the nation's
top railroad official says "this accident was preventable."
The NTSB is set to publicly report the findings at a public
meeting Tuesday.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-
way/2016/05/16/478306796/amtrak-engineer-distracted-by-radio-
before-deadly-derailment-ntsb-says
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