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Stuart G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-20-09 12:21 PM
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Acording to MSNBC..Train emergancy brake never engaged in Sunday accident
Edited on Mon Jul-20-09 12:23 PM by Stuart G
updated 6:29 p.m. CT, Sun., July 19, 2009

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31996269/ns/us_news-life/

SAN FRANCISCO - The operator of a light-rail train that crashed and injured dozens of passengers in San Francisco came under scrutiny Sunday as federal investigators tried to figure out why he inexplicably turned off the automatic controls moments before the collision.

National Transportation Safety Board investigator Ted Turpin did not know why the operator switched the controls from automatic to manual in a tunnel near the West Portal Station.

Had he kept the autopilot on, the train would have slowed down before arriving at the station and likely not careened into a parked train while going 23 mph, Turpin said. He added that the operator never engaged the emergency brake.
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