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The trial will begin Thursday for Brandon Bostian, the Amtrak engineer charged in a deadly high-speed derailment that occurred back in 2015 in Philadelphia.
>> dug, you know people who know brandon bostian -- you know people who know brandon bostian, the engineer that control of this train. how do they characterize him. >> i've heard from a kep couple people that knew him. i worked north from rich noond washington and he worked from new york down to washington and we would spend two to three hours together. i personally don't remember him. i know people that knew him and you have engineers who are good dependable engineers and the crews have a lot of confidence in him and he's very highly spoken of. it just -- you have engineers that you dread working with or you have conducters that you dread working with if you're an engineer but he was very highly thought of and i know that doesn't mean an awful lot in a situation like this but i like
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philadelphia we don't yet know why it derailed but we do know it was going more than twice the speed limmet for that curve. under scrutiny, the actions of one person and that's the engineer. 32-year-old brandon bostian. joining me now is a psychologist he's president of omdore and associates which does psychological screening for peoplepeep agencies including transportation. it can be very hard for many of us most of us to accept that no matter how much we try to be in control of our own destinies and actions, we're still vulnerable to the actions of a random stranger. do you agree with that? >> exactly. and one of the fears of people who have the phobia of flying rits not so much the altitude
speak out. what do you want them to know about him? >> i've seen a lot of things that are unkind to say the least. he's a good decent person. i can't -- like i can isaid i can't imagine how difficult this is for him and how devastated he might be. but he's a good funny, quirky guy, knowing him 15 years ago and knowing him since, he's just a sweet heart of a guy. so my heart breaks for him. i hope so very much that truth comes out and all is well for him. >> thank you, we appreciate you joining us here on cnn. >> thank you. >> we have much much more to come here in philadelphia on this amtrak investigation. the attorney for brandon bostian says the engineer has no
it's that my fate is in the hands of one or two people in the cockpit. >> so we don't know if he actually did anything wrong in this if mr. bostian did anything wrong as the engineer of the train but all of a sudden the pressure is on him to fix it and to talk about what happened. so how do people cope with the actions of someone else? how do you cope with that? how does he cope with that? >> it all depends on what happened. if in fact he had some lapse of consciousness if there's some underlying medical condition he was aware of or not aware of then he's going to have to cope with a lot of guilt, frankly, if he did everything by the book, he's going to feel a lot of survivor guilt of the deaths.
was driving the train and that was brandon bostian. >> and that acceleration happened -- >> that's right up to 65 seconds before up to right before they left the tracks when he applied the emergency break. >> i'm going to speak to oo member of ntsb but what does this mean about brandon bostian posting about safety. >> he was in a job that he absolutely loved. he was a train enthusiast all the way back to high school when he wrote about it. and he was blogging about the safety of trains. and after an accident that involved an engineer that was texting while driving a train, he was writing about the exact safety control system that we're talking about sadly in this accident. he said in any point over the
restricted speed in that area this isn't just negligence this is way beyond what any train can be doing at any time. this is horrendous and you have to remember a train is going into a curve. so you're speeding up going into a curve, instead of slowing down going into a curve. >> you're saying they are liable for failing to provide necessary and appropriate systems to slow and or stop the train. >> it was going in excess of 100 mile-per-hour on that curve. there's been a lot of discussion about positive train control in the media, congress implemented this program and it's supposed to be completed in a various numbers of years and amtrak has done that on much of its property but not on this curve. and it's designed to stop the train if the engineer is going
accident. all 243 people thought to have been on the train are now accounted for. engineer brandon bostian has said no recollection of the crash itself. so they have been digging into the background of this engineer and getting more details for us. and drew joins us now. so we understand that he has agreed to speak. what does this mean for the investigation? >> they discussed today the speed of the train, which just before the curve, he was going 70 mile-per-hour up to the actual crash where he was going 106 mile-per-hour. clearly he was accelerating into this curve, nothing wrong with the train, nothing wrong with the track, nothing wrong with the signaling. so now they're looking at who
he's explained those comments. the ntsb we don't want to prejudge the investigation we want to make sure we're conducting a very thorough investigation and i want to applaud the city of fillphiladelphia and the mayor's office itself in cooperating. the time line is probably not going to be on the time line that the media would like. but we're going to do it very methodically and when we do it we want to do it right. >> thank you. so joining me new exclusively is stephanie mcgee, she's a friend of the engineer brandon bostian. when you found out he was the engineer on the train, what was your reaction? >> i was shocked. i was heart broken for him just knowing how much he loves this