- Title: NTSB finds engineer distracted by radio traffic in 2015 Amtrak crash: NBC
- Date: 16th May 2016
- Summary: PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES (FILE - MAY 13, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF WRECKAGE OF TRAIN CRASH
- Embargoed: 31st May 2016 22:05
- Keywords: NTSB train crash train derailment train wreck
- Location: PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES
- City: PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
- Topics: Ground Accidents/Collisions,Disaster/Accidents
- Reuters ID: LVA0014I26JWN
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has concluded that the engineer of an Amtrak passenger train that crashed in Philadelphia in 2015 was distracted by radio traffic, NBC News reported on Monday (May 16), citing an unnamed source.
The derailment on May 12, 2015, killed eight people and injured more than 200.
The engineer, Brandon Bostian, who suffered a concussion in the crash, told investigators he had no memory of what occurred after the train pulled out of the North Philadelphia station, just before the crash.
The Amtrak regional train No 188 headed from Washington, D.C., to New York, went off the tracks on May 12 along a curve in Philadelphia while traveling at more than twice the 50 mile-per-hour (80 kilometer-per-hour) speed limit.
The train derailed in the city's Port Richmond neighborhood along the Delaware River, near the site of a 1943 rail accident that killed 79 people.
In February federal investigators released documents that provide a painstakingly detailed account of the crash, while leaving unanswered the key question of what caused it. - Copyright Holder: FILE REUTERS (CAN SELL)
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