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With 16 crew. it happened near a rail switch on a straight piece of track near joplin, montana. the section of track had been inspected two days earlier the back eight cars derailed with the last one topping over. three people were killed including a 28-year-old man who was with his wife going to portland. investigators will look at the track, any mechanical issues and whether there was human error. trains are still considered the safest way to travel but six fatal accidents on amtrak trains killing 19 people. according to the department of transportation, track defects account for a third of ...

In when you're upgrading the track? >> so that's a really important question. the track owner is sound transit. the trains are owned by kind of a consortium of oregon and washington state and the train track is the operator. what were the plans? what technology was implemented? and really update this to safety standards that should be existing today. >> and debra, when thoradeborah that speed, three times the speed limit on that stretch of the track on that curve, there could be distraction? i assume they're looking at the engineer, assuming it was a man's, devices, whether there was some othe...

They don't know how many they are. if you are being look at the pictures, what jumps out in your head? when you see obviously the heavy trauma to the train down on to the highway. >> the initial view of a derailment would be to look at the track to see if there were track defects. the next thing that i would look at would be the speed of the train. you are dealing with an inaugural movement and the first time this movement occurred. speed and track is the main thing. you would look at of course the ntsb and the federal railroad administration would be reviewing the so-called black box which co...