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Federal investigators have determined the train was going 106 mph before it derailed Tuesday along a sharp curve where the speed limit drops to 50 mph. But they dont know why. Lawyer Robert Goggin told ABC News that Brandon Bostian immediately.
Absolute disastrous mess: At least 6 dead, hundreds hurt.
PHILADELPHIA (CNN) ��� Armed with flashlights, firefighters went from car to car Wednesday morning, looking for passengers inside an Amtrak train that derailed and tipped over in Philadelphia ��� killing at least six. Another 146 were hospitalized, including six. The deadliest crash in Amtraks history took place in September 1993, when a tugboat smashed into a river bridge, causing it to collapse as an Amtrak train was passing over. The incident in Mobile, Alabama,��.
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Preliminary data show the trains speed exceeded 100 mph before the derailment.. The engineer operating the train ��� identified to CNN as 32-year-old Brandon Bostian from New York ��� applied full emergency brakes ���just moments��� before the train derailed, according to Sumwalt.. That figure included eight in critical condition at Temple University Hospital ��� the closest trauma center to the crash site ��� according to Herb Cushing, the hospitals medical director.
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Speed. Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188 was traveling twice the speed limit for a curve at Frankford Junction, Sumwalt said. The train was traveling about 106 mph as it headed into a left turn on a section of track with a 50 mph speed limit,. The engineer operating the train applied full emergency brakes ���just moments��� before the train derailed, he said.. Robert Halstead, a railroad accident forensics expert, offered a possible scenario to CNNs Jake Tapper.
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The engineer at the helm of Amtrak Train 188 on Tuesday night, May 13, 2015, was identified to CNN as Brandon Bostian, 32, of New York, New York. ��. Bostian, the 32-year-old train engineer, has told police he could not remember his speed, a law enforcement source told CNN. Initial data showed the. He tried to stop the train just before it derailed. Bostians attorney, Robert Goggin, told ABCs ���Good Morning America��� that his client ���was beat up��� in the crash.
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Initial data showed the train was barreling into a curve at more than 100 mph before the derailment, the National Transportation Safety Board said. Thats more than twice the 50 mph speed limit for the curve. ���Clearly it was��.
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PHILADELPHIA ��� Another body has been pulled from the wreckage of an Amtrak train derailment in Philadelphia, increasing the death toll to seven. Philadelphia Fire Department Executive Chief Clifford Gilliam says the��.
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Tue May 12, 2015 at 7:35 PM PT: There still isnt a lot of information coming out, but based on the image linked here, this was a pretty horrific accident.. Investigators of Tuesdays deadly Amtrak derailment say they are focusing on reports that the train was traveling more than twice the 50-mile-an-hour speed limit when it entered a sharp curve in Frankford. [.]. The Acela cannot even get up to speed and it is now a joke in the context of high speed worldwide.
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The black box from the Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia has been recovered and is being analyzed, Mayor Michael Nutter said Wednesday. He said authorities still had not. The train carried 238 passengers and five crew. Amtrak suspended.
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The word infrastructure was halfway around the world before anybody found out that infrastructure had nothing to do with this, that it was a driver, an engineer, who now says he doesnt remember, who was doing twice the choo-choo trains speed limit.
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(CNN) ���No matter what caused Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188 to derail as it rounded a bend in Philadelphia, it looks like technology could have prevented the crash, a top transportation official said. Videos. Train simulator shows train trying to. Speed. Engineer hit emergency brakes before.. The engineer had fallen asleep and failed to slow the train from more than 82 mph to the maximum authorized speed of 30 mph as it entered a curve, the NTSB said.
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. news, in your inbox, sign up here. DERAILED TRAIN WAS GOING TWICE THE SPEED LIMIT At least seven people were killed in the deadly Amtrak derailment Tuesday night, and crews are still looking for missing passengers in the wreckage.. THE BREAST.
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Posted 11:36 AM, May 14, 2015, by CNN Wire, Updated at 06:11pm, May 14, 2015. leading into this tragic accident.��� Investigators are looking at a ���good quality video��� that shows the train speeding up in the moments leading up to its derailment.. ���It just shows the speed alone,��� Sumwalt said. ���It doesnt tell how the speed got there.��� No recollection of crash. NTSB Member Robert Sumwalt examines the scene of the Amtrak Train 188 Derailment in Philadelphia on May 13, 2015.
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The black box from the Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia has been recovered and is being analyzed, Mayor Michael Nutter said Wednesday. He said authorities still had not. The train carried 238 passengers and five crew. Amtrak suspended.
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Devastating: An aerial view taken on Wednesday morning shows the Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia as it traveled from Washington D.C. to New York on Tuesday evening. Seven people have. The last recorded speed before the data cut out was.
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The black box from the Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia has been recovered and is being analyzed, Mayor Michael Nutter said Wednesday. He said authorities still had not. The train carried 238 passengers and five crew. Amtrak suspended.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- An analysis by The Associated Press of surveillance video just before the deadly crash of an Amtrak train in Philadelphia indicates it was traveling about 107 miles per hour as it approached a curve where the speed limit was 50.
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Update [Tursday, 12:17 p.m.] ��� Investigators on Thursday morning found another body at the site of the Amtrak train derailment in Philadelphia, according to the uncle of a man who has been missing since the accident.. Byno told CNN he was at the crash site Thursday morning.. The death of an Associated Press video software architect who once won the companys ���Geek of the Month��� award was confirmed by his wife Jacqueline, the news service reported.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) ��� As federal investigators rummaged through the debris of the Amtrak train that derailed less than 24 hours ago, the House Appropriations Committee voted Wednesday to reject increased funding for the rail service to make capital improvements. Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pennsylvania, proposed a boost that was rejected by the Republican-led committee on a 30-21 vote as the panel marked up a transportation funding bill. Republicans argued��.
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He says the scan takes precise measurements and can help show what happened to the cars in terms of damage. Federal investigators have determined the train was going 106 mph before it derailed along a sharp curve where the speed limit drops to 50 .
Derailed Amtrak train was going 100 mph on sharp curve.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Wednesday that a preliminary investigation suggests the train was traveling at greater than 100 miles per hour���or twice the speed limit���before it hit a sharp turn and jumped the track. Emergency personnel and members of the Philadelphia Fire Department investigate the scene of a train accident in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in this handout photo provided by the Philadelphia Fire Department, May 13, 2015.
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. on [the] Amtrak train that just crashed. ���Im ok. Helping others. Pray for those injured,��� tweeted Patrick J. Murphy just minutes after the Amtrak train he was traveling on from Washington, D.C. to New York City derailed Tuesday night.. derailed at what the NTSB estimate was about 9:21 PM EST. Grainy surveillance video of the crash was obtained by CNN early Wednesday that shows the train speeding by and then a blast that happens out of the frame seconds later.
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Another official said hospitals had treated more than 200 patients. At least six people were killed when Amtrak Regional 188 derailed about 9:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, on its way from Washington to New York. All seven cars were damaged, including some.
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Initial data show the train barreled into a curve at about 106 mph before it derailed, National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt said. Thats more than twice the 50-mph speed limit for the curve, and above��.
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The black box from the Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia has been recovered and is being analyzed, Mayor Michael Nutter said Wednesday. He said authorities still had not. The train carried 238 passengers and five crew. Amtrak suspended.
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Armed with flashlights, firefighters went from car to car early Wednesday morning, looking for passengers inside an Amtrak train that derailed and tipped over in Philadelphia ��� killing at least five. Another 50. Early Wednesday morning, investigators in orange vests walked up and down the track, especially near a part where it curves.. In 1943, it was the site of one of the nations deadliest train accidents when The Congressional Limited crashed, killing 79 people.
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7:15 p.m.. An Amtrak dispatcher injured in the deadly derailment in Philadelphia has filed whats apparently the first lawsuit stemming from it. A lawyer says city resident Bruce Phillips is still being treated at a hospital for a concussion, brain.
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Watch this video. Surveillance video shows moment before train derailment. CNN. CNNs Sara Sidner reports on the surveillance video that caught images from the Amtrak train derailment in Philadelphia. Published at 8:39 am. analysis by The Associated Press of surveillance video just before the deadly crash of an Amtrak train in Philadelphia indicates it was traveling about 107 miles per hour as it approached a curve where the speed limit was 50 miles per hour.
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The black box from the Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia has been recovered and is being analyzed, Mayor Michael Nutter said Wednesday. He said authorities still had not. The train carried 238 passengers and five crew. Amtrak suspended.
Amtrak crash: Video shows train speeding up before derailment
Investigators are looking at a good quality video that shows the train speeding up in the moments leading up to its derailment. They dont know yet what caused the train to accelerate to more than 100 mph. Sumwalt said 65 seconds before the end of.