Reports (A truly gay excuse): Amtrak crash to be blamed on distracted (homosexual) engineer

[Gays Are Not Responsible People]

WASHINGTON — Federal crash investigators are expected to rule
Tuesday that the engineer in the fatal Amtrak crash in
Philadelphia a year ago was distracted by radio messages,
according to published reports.

The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a hearing
about why the Amtrak train was going 106 mph, or more than twice
the 50 mph speed limit, before it derailed, killing eight people
and injuring nearly 200.

The Associated Press, citing an unnamed source, said the
engineer, Brandon Bostian, told investigators that he recalled
radio traffic that night from a commuter train operator who said
a rock had shattered his windshield. The unnamed official was
unable to say whether those were the transmissions that
distracted Bostian.

Bostian, who cooperated with investigators, has said he doesn't
remember much about the derailment May 12, 2015, and couldn't
explain why the train was moving so fast. But in a previously
released NTSB report, Bostian recalled radio messages from a
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA)
commuter train operator who warned about a rock hitting the
other train's windshield.

"He reported that rocks had hit his windshield," Bostian told
investigators according to an NTSB transcript. "The dispatcher
asked him a couple of times if he needed medical attention. He
didn't answer directly and so, they went back forth a few times."

The SEPTA engineer told a radio dispatcher that his windshield
had been shattered, according to the NTSB report, released Feb.
1. The SEPTA engineer was ahead of the Amtrak train, and Bostian
called by radio and blew his whistle to signal that he was
approaching and about to pass the commuter train on the adjacent
track, according to the report.

Bostian, who was not using his cell phone and wasn't intoxicated
during the incident, told investigators the last thing he
recalled before the crash was the 30th Street station in
Philadelphia. But the crash was about 8 miles north of there,
and the train's throttle was moved to full, or "notch eight,"
about 55 seconds or 1.5 miles before the curve, according to
investigators.

The safety board is expected to rule that radio transmissions
distracted Bostian, according to The Associated Press and other
news outlets, who based their reports on sources on condition of
anonymity because they weren't authorized to comment publicly.

The four-member board will vote at the conclusion of its hearing
on the official findings of the investigation, the probable
cause of the crash and recommendations to avoid future crashes.
Peter Knudson, a board spokesman, declined comment ahead of the
hearing.


Bostian's recollections of the accident are vague. He
acknowledged moving the throttle to go 80 mph, but not faster.


Yeah we bet.


"There's several gaps in my memory as I approached the accident
curve," Bostian told investigators in November of a "dream-like"
or "very foggy memory" of the incident.

The 2,200 pages of documents featured the first transcripts
released from Bostian, who wasn’t on his phone and wasn’t
intoxicated at the time of the crash. He tried applying brakes
when he realized the train was tipping, but it was too late.

"About the same time I put the train into emergency, I recall
hoping that the train would not tip completely over," Bostian
told investigators. "I remember holding onto the controls
tightly and feeling like, okay well this is it, I'm going over.
And so I tried to brace myself."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/05/16/amtrak-crash-
distracted-engineer/84464808/