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Miles per hour and 12 seconds later the train hit 90 miles per hour and 15 seconds after that it topped 100 miles per hour. that's when the engineer bostian, slammed on the brakes. what could it mean? with me now, peter goelz. based on what we know and your experience at the ntsb what could the sudden acceleration mean? >> that's why the interview with the engineer will be so quickly. it's not a cross-examination, and it's not a adversarial situation. the ntsb doesn't work like that. they will ask, what do you remember? sometimes they will ask him to write it down. they will ask questions, can...

He remembers trying to reduce speed before he was knocked down. the tragedy is raising new questions about safety. peter alexander has more from philadelphia. >> reporter: an urgent question is the safety of america's rails still on track? while plane crashes dropped to lowest levels since 60s you are six times less likely of a plane crash than train crash. roughly 100 every month. on a passenger train you put your safety in the hands of an engineer. the man driving the train tuesday night brandon bostian. >> the train raveling at 106 miles per hour. >> reporter: this train hit 100

Crash. he says he did not have any drugs or alcohol in his system. he says he has no recollection of what happened. that he suffered a head injury at the time. clearly right now what we know is this engineer slammed on the brakes just as the train hit 106 miles per hour. . this morning engineer brandon bostian is at the center of the investigation. the 32 years old an amtrak engineer for five years, he was injured in the accident but was released from the hospital. late wednesday, police said bostian had been interviewed and given a blood sample and his cell phone. his attorney says bostian ha...

Just ripped them off of the railroad ties and bent the entire rail. we talked about this being a junction. you see a freight train car right there. does not appear that this train hit any of the other vehicles that are out here in this area but i was just looking at a google map of this entire area because it's very dark up here. you can't really see too much from this vantage point, which is why they had a lot of the police helicopters and the lights out here but you can see that the tracks do diverge in all four directions from this point. as the mayor said, it's very soon and too soon to sp...

Analyzed. let us please not try to speculate on what you could find out in fact in a couple of days. i understand the need for you to get out information, but let us not have our need to get out information overwhelm our good common sense to have accurate information out in the marketplace. let's not speculate. i heard a voice over here. >> what about reports this train hit a foreign object? >> i don't have complete certainty about two trains. i'm aware of a report about one train that has nothing to do with this incident at all. different place, different train, nothing to do with this traged...