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Lead conductor was in the passenger section not in the cab. instead the engineer and a conductor in training were in the cab. the engineer still allowed to operate the train. >> under amtrak policy he couldn't operate the train unless he was qualified and familiar with this territory. so the answer would be yes, within the preefs two weeks he'd been qualified to operate on the territory. >> reporter: but the ntsb says the crew did not hit the emergency break before the derailment. it was automatically saactivate. but still no answer why on its very first run at a new passenger route the train ...

Very first run on a new passenger route the train sped at 80 miles per hour, much faster than the posted 30 mile per hour speed limit for the curved section of track. investigators already recovered both of the train's black boxes. they also know this, life saving technology was not activated on this brand enough rail line. ptc forces speeding trains to automatically slow down. the local automotive was in the process of getting a system of ptc installed. >> reporter: positive train control won't be the only thing. >> i'm an advocate of safety. if you can't afford to do it the best way through ...

Run on a new passenger route, the train sped at 80 miles per hour, much faster than the posted 30-mile-per-hour speed limit for the curved section of track. investigators already recovered the train's rear black box. and they also know this. life-saving technology called positive train control, was not activated on this brand-new passenger rail line. ptc forces speeding trains to automatically slow down. >> we're going to find out exactly what ptc or positive train control would have prevented this accident. it's a great disappointment that positive train control has not been implemented in ev...

Correspondent on the scene for us about 50 miles south of seattle. kyung, the national transportation safety board has recovered the train's data recorders. what are you learning? >> both of the event data recorders in the front and rear of the train. they have recovered both of them, wolf. and they also in this news conference that wrapped up a short time ago, said that the emergency brake was automatically activated, meaning that the crew did not hit the emergency brake. in this early part of the investigation, the ntsb saying they still cannot answer the question of why this happened. crane...