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Passengers and crew members trapped inside after the engine and all seven cars derailed three turned on their sides, one nearly resting on its roof. >> its a dangerous situation for responders and more dangerous for the riders down there. >> reporter: train 188 the washington to new york run, left its scheduled 9:07 p.m. stop at philadelphias 30th street station headed north when at 9:28 p.m. the train derailed with such force it ripped the steel rails right from the tracks. the overhead electri...

In delaware. he says it is being analyzed for information. they are looking methodically at this. the ntsb authorities say what they are looking for, these things jose the mechanical investigators are going through this they are looking for information about the tracks performance of the train, electrical power of the train, also train speed and what was the speed of the train going around that curve. in addition, he said theres also a video camera that was in the engineering portion of the trai...

Rather than exclusively letting it fly the airplane. the thing to remember is that no matter what happens, its still an airplane, and pilots still need to be able to fly the airplane. >> reporter: and if you think asiana was a freak occurrence, think again. another one happened just in england. thats why experienced pilots like captain keith walsinger says -- >> the pilot should have his hands on the throttle itself. you have a feel for where the throttle position should be. >> reporter: we dont...

Rather than exclusively letting it fly the airplane. the thing to remember is that no matter what happens, its still an airplane, and pilots still need to be able to fly the airplane. >> reporter: and if you think asiana was a freak occurrence, think again. another one happened just in england. thats why experienced pilots like captain keith walsinger says -- >> the pilot should have his hands on the throttle itself. you have a feel for where the throttle position should be. >> reporter: we dont...

Hand on the throttle itself, whether its being controlled by the auto pilot or by the pilot manually. you have a feel for where the throttle position should be. >> reporter: these hearings will not get to the bottom of what caused this crash. thats not really their purpose. this is more of a general investigation. but the investigation itself is already spurring serious discussion about accountability and passenger safety and making sure that computers help pilots fly planes, not the other way a...

But we have to corroborate that information with other evidence and factual information. as i said, well be looking for information from recorders that can possibly tell us about speed. it could tell us about throttle position or braking. but we have to make sure those recorders were actually working and not damaged because of the accident. we need to look to things like surveillance cameras or people who might be taking photos or video no the vicinity. so all that can be helpful to us. so we ta...

Contained but there are missing of 40. maybe we have a hint of what happened here. rick, what do we know now? >> this is terrible story. the same weekend of the plane crash investigators are trying to get information from those so-called black boxes. data recorders just as in airplanes they collect information about the trains brakes, throttle position, the speed the train was traveling at the time of the accident. you can see the fireball here. this train was apparently parked unattended when i...

If you have a family member on that train, you think its worth the dollars. >> rene marsh, thank you very much. i want to bring in the former chairman of the national transportation safety board and now the president of the national safety council. thanks very much for taking the time. were very happy to have you here. listen, i know its early. there are certainly no final answers to all of these questions, but you look at the scene of the crash, it happened on a curve. a witness speaking to cnn...

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