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If there were issues of employee error. the issues were with the train itself. the black box and certainly they helped determine that. the speed is an issue possibly and the track possibly. defective. there may be wheel defects on the train. these are the issues that certainly will be at the forefront of the ntsb. the black box itself will give all the instrumentation of the train operations including the signals and the brake application and the speed, etc. they will have the basic information ...

Well be looking at those. we have a forward facing video camera thats in the head end of the locomotive. the front end of the train. well be looking at that. we will be -- the event recorders themselves can give you information about the speed of the train and any brake application and any throttle applications that the engineer could have made. horn bell it can give us a lot. that will be key to this investigation is a good download of those data which is being conducted and will be done this a...

The tape revealed the train was traveling at 72 miles per hour and there was no brake application. whatever caused the crash, the engineer never saw it. investigators also discovered the signals on the track were green. >> the signals are controlled by a current that goes through the rail, and if the rail breaks, the signal will immediately turn red. so, the signal didnt turn red. >> the bridge was originally built in three sections. the southern section was a 165-foot steel truss bridge. the ce...

Divers recovered the trains event recorder from the bayou, which is like an airlines flight data recorder. the tape revealed the train was traveling at 72 miles per hour and there was no brake application. whatever caused the crash, the engineer never saw it. investigators also discovered the signals on the track were green. >> the signals are controlled by a current that goes through the rail, and if the rail breaks, the signal will immediately turn red. so, the signal didnt turn red. >> the br...

And there was no brake application. whatever caused the crash, the engineer never saw it. investigators also discovered the signals on the track were green. >> the signals are controlled by a current that goes through the rail, and if the rail breaks, the signal will immediately turn red. so the signal didnt turn red. >> the bridge was originally built in three sections. the southern section was a 165-foot steel truss bridge. the center section, a single 140-foot steel girder, was originally des...

Our investigators will continue their on-scene work tomorrow, including interviews, inspections, and documentation gathering. with that id be willing to take few questions. >> was this human error or was this fault where braking systems that led to this derailment? >> the question is, was this human error or faulty equipment? the answer is, at this point in time, we cant tell. at this point in time the data is preliminary burt we can say heres what happened. we know speed and position and power ...

Our investigators will continue their on-scene work tomorrow, including interviews, inspections and documentation gathering. with that, i would be willing to take a few questions. >> just to be clear, was this human error, or was this faulty braking system that led to this derailment? >> so the question is, was this human error or faulty equipment? the answer is at this point in time, we cant tell. at this point in time, the data is preliminary, but we can say heres what happened. we know speeds...

And evaluation in the next few days. our investigators will continue their on-scene work tomorrow, including interviews, inspections and documentation gathering. with that, i would be willing to take a few questions. >> just to be clear, was this human error or was this faulty braking system that led to this derailment? >> so the question is was this human error or faulty equipment. the answer is at this point in time, we cant tell. at this point in time, the data is preliminary, but we can say ...

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