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Someone else before me mentioned a brick and I was commenting about that. He did get cut that required 14 staples in the head....so he did get hit with something. The engineer has ALWAYS said he had no memory of the crash. What if a brick (or any object) coming through the windshield hit him and he fell forward or backwards while on the throttle? It doesn't take much to move it. [/i][i] He would have been killed with a brick thru the windshield, he had not serious head injuries of any sort.
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The rock "ding" (those screens are big-time reinforced) was on the other side of the cab and just would have made a THUNK. "Oh, dang it, rocked again!" "Dispatcher, Amtrak 188. I just got rocked a mile south of Frankford Jct."
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More likely he learned that running a train of the tracks at 106mph ain't the same as running an Airbus into a mountain at 500.
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So listening to another interview from a former engineer who used to run that route. He said that upon leaving that station it is normal to twist the throttle up to notch 8 or as he said, "wide open" in layman's terms. It is only three miles to that curve and they accelerate up to about 80 mph, then, the throttle is released and the brakes applied.
If the windshield was hit with something and distracted the engineer right about the time he was to start slowing down, that might explain things. At those speeds and accelerations, all you would need is to be distracted for five seconds or so, and you would be screwed. Then, he had the wreck, got a concussion and doesn't remember a thing.
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So listening to another interview from a former engineer who used to run that route. He said that upon leaving that station it is normal to twist the throttle up to notch 8 or as he said, "wide open" in layman's terms. It is only three miles to that curve and they accelerate up to about 80 mph, then, the throttle is released and the brakes applied.
If the windshield was hit with something and distracted the engineer right about the time he was to start slowing down, that might explain things. At those speeds and accelerations, all you would need is to be distracted for five seconds or so, and you would be screwed. Then, he had the wreck, got a concussion and doesn't remember a thing. That is a pretty good scenario
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More likely he learned that running a train of the tracks at 106mph ain't the same as running an Airbus into a mountain at 500. Most likely scenario, IMO.
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So listening to another interview from a former engineer who used to run that route. He said that upon leaving that station it is normal to twist the throttle up to notch 8 or as he said, "wide open" in layman's terms. It is only three miles to that curve and they accelerate up to about 80 mph, then, the throttle is released and the brakes applied.
If the windshield was hit with something and distracted the engineer right about the time he was to start slowing down, that might explain things. At those speeds and accelerations, all you would need is to be distracted for five seconds or so, and you would be screwed. Then, he had the wreck, got a concussion and doesn't remember a thing. Pretty damned convenient theory.
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At this point, no matter what that guy did or did not do, if he doesn't go insane and make a confession, they'll never be able to charge him with anything or convict him if they do.
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