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septa, a different train operator call in it dispatch saying i believe i've been hit with something. perhaps some sort of projectile a stone, something to that effect. we know that after that was reported to dispatch this conductor said she believed she heard the engineer of the amtrak train say that the same sort of thing happened to his train. that is what she believes. so this is something that investigators are now looking into. was this amtrak train struck with some sort of projectile. we know that there is damage to the lower half of the windshield. and it is a circular force, a circular sort of pattern in the windshield. and now they want to find out was this train struck as well. today accident investigators met for the first time with the train's engineer brandon bostian, as well as two assistant conductors. the interviews will be critical in determining what caused the
i'm a regular commuter doing this for ten years and never had something like that happen. >> that was around the same time as the crash of amtrak 188, the regional train that had just left philadelphia. one, that one crashed around what 9:28 9:30 something like that right? >> yeah. from what i understood following the timeline it looked like the train crashed ten, 15 minceutes later. i with a going south, and that train was going north, passing fill l.a. we were boarded by amtrak police when we got to the 30th street station and about 9:23 they let us leave. i had a text message chin with my wife. five minutes later, so the other accident occurred. >> you were reported this that your window had been hit by some sort of object to the conductor, is that right? >> yes. it was not me who reported it it was another guy sitting in the same row. but we were boarded by two amtrak police officers the conductor came in and checked to
it's structurally sound. five to seven minutes later, the two amtrak cops came on took a couple pictures felt the inside of the window and let us continue. to me i thought even though i've never seen it in years. i assume that these things must be fairly routine if they would send us off that quickly. all very surreal, the mayor of philadelphia came out the next day and said there was no connection. my train was hit, a septa train was hit and then the amtrak train derails and crashes. >> i remember reading about the local commuter train hit by some sort of projectile and wondering if there was any connection with the amtrak regional 188 train going towards new york. but now you're telling us about this third acela train was hit by some sort of object. we're showing the viewers the front of the amtrak 188. this is the train that
deadly derailment. >> she said she heard the engineer talking to a septa engineer. she recalled that the septa engineer had reported to the train dispatcher that he had either been hit by a rock or shot at. she also believed that she heard her engineer say something about his train being struck by something. >> the ntsb says the train accelerated as it approached a sharp curve in the track. data from the train's video camera shows 65 seconds before the crash, the train was moving at 70 miles per hour. 22 seconds later, more than 80. then 90 before exceeding to more than 100 miles per hour the brakes heard as it approached the curve. >> mere seconds into the turn we could see the train tilting, approximately 10 degrees to the right. and then the recording went