that he lost his concentration. even if only for a matter of seconds might have been the difference between getting to that point and putting his brake on and dropping the throttle and realizing after a few seconds that he was by the point of i guess the point of no return you might want to call it. he looks up and you realize that as he s getting ready to go in the 50-mile-per-hour curve. at that point, he realizes it s to put the train in an emergency. david hughes i would say i would most want it see the cell phone record of a timing of a call he may have had with a septa engineer and, of course i would want to interview the engineer and know what was said in that conversation. david hughes take the final word on this. whatever happened michael, was recorded. all his radio communications are recorded and maintained for just this reason. doug redell xavier bishop david hughes thank you for
we re conductors. our primary objective is to get passengers from point a to point b on a day-to-day basis. you don t come into work thinking i m going to derail and cause all these problems. when you re in a car, you have a call with two or three other people and these people have their lives in your hands. that is not your intention to take the car and flip it over. you would get on a train with him tomorrow. i get on a train on a day-to-day basis. doug redell what significance do you find with the revelations of the nstb yesterday that an object may have hit this train? it s the piece of the puzzle that i ve been missing. i run trains at this distance he did. i run diesels more in fact i m not electric qualified. i do know the territory. it disturbed me when i heard at first that he accelerated the train going into a curve. that s not right. then the information came out that he left when he passed north philadelphia and i think
would be no technology to implement today. i want it bring in doug redell and xavier bishop. xavier you know brandon bostian and the rest of us don t know the man. what is it you know? i was a flagman for the better half of a year. it was a sipuation wheretuation where he approached the job, he was always on time and always had his paperwork and everything wans on point. he didn t come off cocky, anything he did not know he knew the proper people to call in order to get the answers he needed to do his job. he doesn t strike you as the sort of individual who s up in the engine and listening to talking on his phone or engaged in some sort of voluntary distraction? abhe takes his job very seriously and just an unfortunate incident. do you think a rush to judgment in some elements of our society paying attention to this?
welcome back. breaking news coverage of the raid in syria, but first, to another big story we re following. new developments in the deadly amtrak derailment. ntsb investigators say the train may have been hit by an object before it flew off the tracks. during an interview with investigators, one of the assistant conductors said she heard engineer brandon bostian talking to the engineer of a local commuter train said his windshield was shot at or hit by a rock. she told investigators she thought she heard bostian reply that he thought his amtrak train was hit. we are covering every angle of this story and a great lineup of guests who can help us better understand all of these developments. doug redell a former amtrak