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Approximately 106 miles per hour. three seconds later, when the data to the recorder's terminated, the train speed was 102 miles per hour. >> causing many to question if the crash had been due to human report. >> anderson cooper, cnn, philadelphia. the investigation into what caused the derailment is just getting under way. peter, during these times of investigations, is it normal for the engineer to refuse to give a statement, to lawyer up and clam up, if you like? >> no, it's -- it's unusual, but it's not unheard of. clearly, with the evidence from the event recorder, that showed him enter...

Bastion two weeks ago and they talked about trains because they're both fans. the person said, quote, the notion that he made it, so to speak, is of no surprise to me, made it driving trains, end quote. bastion's facebook page says he's from memphis, tennessee, but now lives in new york city. the national transportation safety board says today the train was traveling at double the speed limit when the crash occurred killing seven people and injuring more than 200. >> just moments before the derailment, the train was placed the engineer into -- and this means that the engineer applied full emer...

Speed. investigators will determine if it was human error or maybe a mechanical problem. cnn's jason carol reports from philadelphia. >> reporter: the mangled wreckage strewn on the tracks, the data recorder recovered from the first car has already revealed the train was traveling at least twice as fast as it should have been. 106 miles per hour. as it entered the corner where it derailed late tuesday. just moments before the derailment, the train was placed into engineer induced braking and this means that the engineer applied full emergency, full emergency brake application. the train was tr...

Bostian's facebook page says he's from memphis, tennessee, but now lives in new york city. the national transportation safety board says today the train was traveling at double the speed limit when the crash occurred killing seven people and injuring more than 200. >> just moments before the derailment, the train was placed the engineer into -- and this means that the engineer applied full emergency -- full emergency brake application. maximum authorized speed through this curve was 50 miles per hour. when the engineer induced brake application, the train wag traveling at approximately 106 mil...

That the bed was so well prepared that you wouldn't have that rocking and rolling, so to speak. >> i want to listen to what ntsb member robert sunwolt said today about the train speed and about the safety options we have for controlling this. >> amtrak throughout a good beat of the northern corridor called advanced civil speice enforcement. that is called acses. it is installed throughout the most of the northeast corridor. however, it is not installed for this area where the accident occurred, where the derailment occurred. that type of a system is designed to enforce the civil speed to keep ...