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From Philly.com:
- Ntsb: Amtrak Assistant Conductor Heard Engineer Say Train Struck By “something”
AND THERE'S ALSO THIS: NBCNews video: Passenger on Amtrak Locomotive Says His Train Was Also Struck by Object A passenger traveling along the same route the night that Amtrak Train 188 derailed in Philadelphia told NBC News that an object hit his...
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NY Times: Amtrak Train Possibly Hit Before Wreck PHILADELPHIA — The Amtrak train that derailed Tuesday, killing eight people and injuring more than 200, may have been struck by an object before it careened off the tracks, an assistant conductor on the...
- Is The Amtrak Train Derailment An Incident Of Jihadist Terrorism?
An earlier comment from Anonymous here at IBA: Anonymous said... Revisit that thread on what appeared to be a bullet hole in the glass....related? If I were a conductor and experienced a bullet passing through the window near me, the threat of shots reaching...
- Train Travelling At Least 30 Miles Above The Speed Limit At Time It Derailed - Engineer Has Lawyer Present, Refuses To Talk To Police
From Yahoo: PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The engineer at the controls of an Amtrak train that hurtled off the tracks while rounding a sharp curve refused to talk to police Wednesday as the death toll climbed to seven with the discovery of another body in the...
- Philadelphia: Amtrak Train Entirely Derails, All Seven Cars, "twisted And Torn Like Tinfoil", One Reporter Declares It A "massive Crime Scene"
6 Dead, 146 Injured From CNN: "It is an absolute, disastrous mess," Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said of the crash site. "I've never seen anything like this in my life." Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188 was traveling from Washington to New...
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Amtrak Train SPED UP From 70 mph to 102 mph Before Crashing
From Philly.com:
Right before its fatal derailment on Tuesday night, Amtrak Train 188 accelerated significantly as it approached the Frankford Junction curve, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.
In barely a minute, its speed jumped from 70 m.p.h. to 102 m.p.h. three seconds before the crash, said NTSB member Robert Sumwalt at a news briefing.
The speed limit in that area is 50 m.p.h. Sumwalt said it was unclear whether the engineer, identified as Brandon Bostian, 32, of Forest Hills, N.Y., had accelerated manually, but it was known that he did attempt to deploy the emergency brake.
Bostian’s attorney has told ABC-TV that his client had no memory of the crash.
- Ntsb: Amtrak Assistant Conductor Heard Engineer Say Train Struck By “something”
AND THERE'S ALSO THIS: NBCNews video: Passenger on Amtrak Locomotive Says His Train Was Also Struck by Object A passenger traveling along the same route the night that Amtrak Train 188 derailed in Philadelphia told NBC News that an object hit his...
- Bloggers Aren't The Only Ones Asking...
NY Times: Amtrak Train Possibly Hit Before Wreck PHILADELPHIA — The Amtrak train that derailed Tuesday, killing eight people and injuring more than 200, may have been struck by an object before it careened off the tracks, an assistant conductor on the...
- Is The Amtrak Train Derailment An Incident Of Jihadist Terrorism?
An earlier comment from Anonymous here at IBA: Anonymous said... Revisit that thread on what appeared to be a bullet hole in the glass....related? If I were a conductor and experienced a bullet passing through the window near me, the threat of shots reaching...
- Train Travelling At Least 30 Miles Above The Speed Limit At Time It Derailed - Engineer Has Lawyer Present, Refuses To Talk To Police
From Yahoo: PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The engineer at the controls of an Amtrak train that hurtled off the tracks while rounding a sharp curve refused to talk to police Wednesday as the death toll climbed to seven with the discovery of another body in the...
- Philadelphia: Amtrak Train Entirely Derails, All Seven Cars, "twisted And Torn Like Tinfoil", One Reporter Declares It A "massive Crime Scene"
6 Dead, 146 Injured From CNN: "It is an absolute, disastrous mess," Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said of the crash site. "I've never seen anything like this in my life." Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188 was traveling from Washington to New...