Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131202:15:37:00
Investigation. they have now recovered the plaque b black boxes from both the front of the train and the rear of the train and they hope that will give them the definitive information. how fast was the train going, were the brakes applied and when were they applied. according to the mta, the train operator told their investigators that he did what's called dumping the brakes. that the brakes weren't working and so he tried this emergency maneuver when you lit all of the emergency brakes on all of the cars at the same time so really an extreme measure. the ntsb still hasn't spoken with the trai...
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