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Listed on there. so we can see what speeds were at various points as this train approaches the curve. i think it shows speeds in the 70s and 80s and gradually up to the 106 that you determined up to oo minute before the crash. that s a pretty fast excelerationexcel acceleration into a curve? well it shouldn t have been going any faster than 50 miles per hour into the curve. and in the straight aways? over 100 miles an hour. that s really at the top of the speed 2 should haveit should have been going anyways, right. you backed away from the comments of the mayor. do you and the mayor have any sort of is there an issue between the ntsb and the mayor because of the comments? absolutely not. we actually just hugged each other about 20 minutes ago. ....
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Previous 80 years, the railroad could have voluntarily implemented some form of this technology on the line and instead, it took an act of congress to get them to do it. the reality is they ve had nearly 100 years to mitigate a system human error but with few notable exceptions have failed to do so. he knew about safety systems. this was not a reckless guy. i m wondering if that speaks to the frustration of people inside of amtrak perhaps. i think this is a lot of things that will come out in his ntsb interview, if he s honest. and he will be allowed to have his attorney with him for that. didn t you speak to a former ....
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 ....
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 ....