Latest on Amtrak Crash: Engineer Applied Emergency Brake Seconds Before Derailment
The National Transportation Safety Board’s Robert Sumwalt said today at a press conference that the engineer of the Amtrak train that derailed last night in Philadelphia applied the emergency braking system approximately 3 seconds before the crash.
He also said that when the data recorder stopped working, the train was traveling at 106 miles per hour, more than twice the speed limit in that section of track.