re: #29 Weet

Oh no.

This is eerily reminiscent of that plane crash in the Alps.

“Sumwalt said video from inside the cabin shows that 65 seconds before the crash, the train’s speed went above 70 mph. Just 16 seconds before the end of the recording, the train’s speed went above 100 mph, Sumwalt added.”

That’s the NTSB saying that just a little while ago. I had tried to find the video of today’s NTSB press conference to get the latest on the train crash. I have not found the video yet but I found this and decided to share. This ‘quote’ is all over the news.

NTSB on train crash

I’m not going to read to much into this until more data comes out. Mainly because of the many cases of someone hitting the gas when they meant to hit the brakes. Also, take into account, he also hit the brakes right before entering the curve. My take right now is that he throttled up when he meant to throttle down (hence doing 70 mph in 80 mph section), realized his mistake and hit the brakes to slow down, but was to late.