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Seconds before the train came to a stop. its too early to tell if the trains engineer, william rockefeller jr., is at fault. but sources tell abc news, the evidence is pointing toward human error as the cause of this accident that injured more than 60 people. >> felt the car tip down towards the right. i could actually see the ground coming toward my head. >> reporter: and killed four others. last night, a small vigil held at the scene. >> the lord is your guardian. >> reporter: remembering donn...

Hour around this danger curve. and the speed limit was really 30 miles an hour. and yesterday, earl weener from the ntsb told me that it had actually slert accelerated fromo 70, then 82. clearly it couldnt handle that. if the brakes, if there are no anomalies with the brakes, peter, it looks like human error. is there any other possible cause out there? >> boy, i cant think of one. clearly this investigation is zeroing in on human factors, and on the actions of the operator. the brake systems on...

The trains speed is even higher than the maximum speed of 70 miles per hour in the straightaway north of the crash site. deepening the mystery, the ntsb says the train inexplicably when from 60 to 82 miles per hour in two minutes before hitting the curve and jumping the track. >> for a train to be going 82 miles an hour around that curve is just a frightening thought. >> reporter: mechanical problem or human error? its still too early to tell. investigators say the train made nine stops before j...

Marsh. >> reporter: ntsb investigators continue searching for clues and questioning the train engineer william rockefeller for a second day in hopes of learning why this train was going so fast. >> the event recorders shows that the train was traveling at approximatelile 2 miles per hour. >> reporter: thats nearly three times the speed limit for the curving stretch of track. its even higher than the maximum speed of 70 miles per hour in the straightaway north of the crash site. deepening the mys...

Trains engineer, william rockefeller jr., is at fault. but sources tell abc news, the evidence is pointing toward human error as the cause of this accident that injured more than 60 people. >> felt the car tip down towards the right. i could actually see the ground coming toward my head. >> reporter: and killed four others. last night, a small vigil held at the scene. >> the lord is your guardian. >> reporter: remembering donna smith, jim lovell, on his way to work lighting the rockefeller cente...

Days. theyre investigating speed and human error as possibilities. speed is being looked into. there is a sharp curve in the tracks and just before the area that was 30 miles an hour, the zone where the incident happened, it was 70 miles an hour. there was a sharp dropoff. take a listen. >> we dont know what the train speed was. we will learn that from the vehicle event recorders. incidentally, we have recovered the event recorder off the cab car. we have downloaded the data off the locomotive. ...

You would call it a warning page, the response page he got. im sure youll talk about it tonight on "special report." bret baier is the anchor. thank you. all of the days political news each and every night on "special report." bret baier will have it at 6:00 p.m. eastern for you tonight. jenna: turning back to another big story for us today, investigators in the national transportation safety board on the scene of the deadly train derailment outside of new york city as were learning more about t...

Implement positive train control. that system is supposed to be installed bay the end of 2015. had that been installed, theres a good possibility this accident would have been avoided if it was due to human error. >> are you blaming that system? the lack -- >> no, obviously, its a very expensive system. its going to cost the industry $10 billion to put the system in, that theyre going to pay themselves without any federal funding. the benefits of that are only about $400 million over 20 years. t...

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 ...

Going, but we still dont know why. just one day into the vase and a startling revelation. >> this is preliminary information from the event recorders, shows the train was traveling at approximately 82, as it went into a 30-mile-an-hour curve. >> reporter: speed caused the crash, but why was it going so fast? mechanical problem or human error? its too early to tell. we do know 82 miles per hour is too fast for the approach which had a speed limit of 70. power to the engine was not cut, and brakes...