The Engineer in Last Month’s Lethal Amtrak crash Was Not Using His Mobile Phone

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According to close source, it was gathered that the
engineer in last month’s lethal Amtrak crash was not using his mobile phone to
talk, typescript or transfer anything just before the train zipped off the
tracks, detectives said on Wednesday, addressing one major query about what
might have been the cause of such accident, but conclusion gathered was only deepening
the mystery of what actually happened.

More so, regarding the updated report on Wednesday, the National Transportation
Safety Board said after careful scrutiny and examination of the engineer
(Brandon Bostian), mobile phone, it was discovered that he did not access the
train’s Wi-Fi system while he was operating the train. Without missing words,
approximately eight people were killed and about 200 were incapacitated in the
crash in Philadelphia city. The reason for such unforeseen occurrence is still unidentified,
the train accelerated to 106 miles per hour in the minute before it entered a bend
where the speed limit is 50, investigators have said beforehand. In the last
few seconds the brakes were practically applied with extreme force, but the
train was still traveling at over 100 mph when it left the tracks.

Engineer Bostian, provided the plainclothesmen with his personal passcode to
his mobile device, granting them full access to the data base of his mobile
phone, the NTSB said. Bostian was agonized with a head injury in the May 12 smash,
and his advocate has said he does not recollect anything after the train pulled
out of Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station, the last stop before the derailment.

To prevent future occurrence, On Tuesday, the House approved a
transportation expenditure bill that includes $9 million for Amtrak to install
inward-facing cameras in train cabs. Five years ago, the NTSB suggested that
the Federal Railroad Administration necessitate train tracks to be installed
and seemingly security cameras, because even though the engineer in the last
month lethal Amtrak crash was not using his mobile phone, it is quite significant
so investigators would have a video and sound recording of what was going
inside the cab in the event of an accident.
Following the disastrous event, during Wednesday’s hearing, Dinh-Zarr
correspondingly advised subtly that the instantaneous installation by railroads
of positive train regulator, a technology that can avert trains from
earth-shaking because of excessive speed, as well as smashes between trains.
NTSB first optional trains have the technology in 1970, and has since
investigated approximately 140 coincidences that it could have prohibited, she
said.

 In the same vain, Legislatures
instructed in 2008 that Amtrak, traveler railroads and freight railroads
install optimistic and seemingly positive train control by the end of this
year. Amtrak still has to accurately perform extensive testing of the system
but will need to meet the deadline in the demanding Northeast Access strip flanked
by Boston and Washington, the bureaucrats said affirmatively. Most spectators
believed the engineer in last month lethal Amtrak
Crash was not using his mobile phone, but rather than waiting for
regulations, Amtrak will mount the cameras on trains in the Northeast Access
strip on its own, the railroad’s president and CEO, Joseph Boardman, said
recently.

Source ; https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/ntsb-amtrak-engineer-used-cellphone-crash-123509687–finance.html