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Traveller traveled in 2014 alope. >> it is a disastrous mess and never seen anything like this in my life. >> the sharp turn had called for a speed of 50 miles per hour but by this afternoon the ntsb confirmed a speed double that. >> the train was traveling at approximately 106 miles per hour and three seconds later when the data to the recorders terminated the train speed was 102 miles per hour. >> causing many to question if the crash was due to human error. and jason carroll joins me now and drew griffin. drew, you've been looking at the engineer and you have new information. >> we know h...

A type of system we were just referring to in the last segment is called positive train control. what is it? how does it work? we go inside a train simulator at los angeles metro link. >> so you're that engineer. you're coming into a curve. it seems a little bit hot. what is it telling you? >> right now my train speed is 62 miles an hour. we're going to shortly -- momentarily when comebe coming into a zone. it's going to give me a warning saying you need to brake and reduce your speed. it will give me a time limit. it's saying i have 29 seconds to bring my speed down. if i don't do it bring my...

Maybe a mechanical problem. cnn's jason carol reports from philadelphia. >> reporter: the mangled wreckage of amtrak train, 188, strewn on the tracks, event data recorder recovered from the train's first car revealed the tran 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 traveling at approximately 106 miles per hour...

More than double the speed limit as it hit a dangerous curve near the frankfurt junction rail yard. the engineer hit the brakes but it was already too late. >> maximum authorized speed through this curve was 50 miles per hour. when the engineer induced brake application was applied, the train was traveling at approximately 106 miles per hour. three seconds later, when the data to the recorder is terminated, the train speed was 102 miles per hour. >> a nearby surveillance camera captured what appears to be explosions as the train derailed at 9:21 p.m. six out of seven cars left the tracks and t...

Train speed, images from a video camera on the engine and log of when the train's operator used tools like the brake and throttle and horn. we're waiting for the mayor of philadelphia to give us an update again at 2:15. adam experts we've been talking to say analogies like crack the whip or something like that if you're on an ice rink with your friends and you're going around the turns, that this train car resembles something like that because of the high rate of speed and inertia. >> reporter: the wreckage and twisted metal that you see there, it just had to have been going too fast. now you ...