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发帖数: 16484 | 1 2015年5月一辆Amtrak列车在50mph zone超速到100mph，引起翻车造成8人死亡。经过一
年的严密调查取证，官方认为造成事故的原因是，司机收到另一辆火车上的司机发来的
消息，说windshield撞到了石头，影响了事故列车上的engineer,所以造成了超速2倍。
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Official: Radio transmissions distracted Amtrak engineer
https://www.yahoo.com/news/official-radio-transmissions-distrac
engineer-214126117.html?nhp=1
NEW YORK (AP) — An Amtrak engineer whose speeding train jumped the tracks
along a curve in Philadelphia last year, killing eight people, was
distracted by radio transmissions, a U.S. official briefed on the
investigation said Monday.
Engineer Brandon Bostian told investigators three days after the May 12,
2015, crash that he recalled radio traffic that night from a commuter train
operator who said a rock had shattered his windshield. The official was
unable to say whether those were the transmissions that distracted Bostian,
but the engineer spoke about no other radio chatter when interviewed by
federal investigators, according to material released previously by the
National Transportation Safety Board.
The official was not authorized to comment publicly because the probe is
still underway and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of
anonymity.
The revelation came a day before the NTSB is scheduled to meet to detail the
probable cause of last year's fatal derailment. The cause won't be
determined officially until the board's vote at the conclusion of that
meeting.
NTSB spokesman Peter Knudsen said the agency would not comment ahead of
Tuesday's hearing.
Bostian's attorney didn't immediately return an email sent after business
hours on Monday. An Amtrak spokesman said the agency will have a comment
after Tuesday's hearing.
The official briefed on the report's findings Monday said that investigators
also believe there were some issues with the train's emergency windows and
several people were killed because they were ejected through those windows.
The investigation also found police transported many of the injured people
to the hospital instead of waiting for ambulances, the official said. The
NTSB is expected to recommend that engineers be retrained about distractions
and recommend the city wait for ambulances to take injured people to the
hospital at mass-casualty incidents.
The city's emergency management office is finalizing a revised mass-casualty
plan that will continue to allow police to transport victims but will aim
for better coordination with the fire department, spokeswoman Noelle Foizen
said.
Investigators are looking into why the train from Washington, D.C., to New
York was going double the 50 mph limit around a sharp curve about 10 minutes
after leaving Philadelphia's 30th Street Station.
Early in the investigation, the NTSB focused on whether the Amtrak train had
been hit with a rock or other projectile minutes before the crash.
Bostian told investigators he was concerned about the welfare of the
commuter train's engineer and "a little bit concerned" for his own safety,
but he never indicated in either NTSB interview that his train had been
struck.
"There's been so many times where I've had reports of rocks that I haven't
seen anything, that I felt like it was unlikely that it would impact me,"
Bostian told investigators, adding that he figured whoever damaged the
commuter train had probably left the area by the time he rolled through.
Trains operating in the Northeast are frequent targets of rock-throwing
vandals. Other nearby trains reported being hit by rocks that evening not
long before the derailment. A grapefruit-sized dent was found in the
windshield of Amtrak 188's locomotive.
Bostian, regarded by friends for his safety-mindedness and love of
railroading, has been suspended without pay since the crash. A letter from
Amtrak in the NTSB files shows he was suspended for speeding.
The lack of clarity on what caused the train to speed has frustrated crash
victims, some of whom have racked up millions of dollars in hospital bills
and are continuing to rehabilitate from injuries. Dozens of victims have
sued Amtrak for compensation. |
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