NTSB investigation of Metrolink crash in LA area

Collarspace Discussion Forums

Home Login Search

NTSB investigation of Metrolink crash in LA area

View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest

All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid >> NTSB investigation of Metrolink crash in LA area

Page: [1]

Message

<< Older Topic Newer Topic >>

NTSB investigation of Metrolink crash in LA area - 9/15/2008 6:18:11 AM

Vendaval

Posts: 10297
Joined: 1/15/2005
Status: offline

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the Metrolink train crash in the Los Angeles area. "Investigators focus on whether signal was broken or missed" "Federal officials rebuke Metrolink for assigning fault too soon. Service may resume late today." By Louis Sahagun, Scott Glover and Ted Rohrlich, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
September 15, 2008
"Federal officials investigating Friday's fatal Metrolink train crash focused Sunday on whether a signal that should have alerted the engineer to stop the train was working properly, and whether it went unheeded.

National Transportation Safety Board member Kitty Higgins said a computer reading indicated the last signal before the collision site was displaying a red light. But she said investigators wanted to make sure it wasn't a false reading."
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-traincrash15-2008sep15,0,4447318.story

_____________________________

"Beware, the woods at night, beware the lunar light.
So in this gray haze we'll be meating again, and on that
great day, I will tease you all the same."
"WOLF MOON", OCTOBER RUST, TYPE O NEGATIVE

http://KinkMeet.co.uk

Profile

Post #: 1

RE: NTSB investigation of Metrolink crash in LA area - 9/15/2008 7:47:57 AM

pahunkboy

Posts: 33061
Joined: 2/26/2006
From: Central Pennsylvania
Status: offline

I read the dude was TEXTING!

if so- think of all the new laws that will follow.

i text while in DR waiting rooms. it relaxes me.

(in reply to Vendaval)

Profile

Post #: 2

RE: NTSB investigation of Metrolink crash in LA area - 9/15/2008 9:25:24 AM

Termyn8or

Posts: 18681
Joined: 11/12/2005
Status: offline

They are hemming and hawing. The engineer should have seen at least two yellow signals before the red. He also should have been aware of the situation. He should have expected to have to stop. While a passenger train's schedule may vary a bit, the freight train's does not. Much.

How is it the engineer had not been apprised of the situation, that there would be a delay ? Have we gotten so advanced we can't do anything right ?

In 2002 I did something rare, I bought someone a gift. It was his eighteenth birthday and looking for something appropriate I settled on a Walther railroad watch. It was manufactured the same year the house in which his Father was born, was built. It was almost exactly 100 years old. Doing a bit of checking, I found out why they took great pains to make these watches accurate. An error could kill people. There were no lights.

Now we have computers and all this technology, and it is possible that because of cellphones people died. Yes, we sure have come a long way haven't we ? A hundred years ago they figured out how to deal with the problem, and with all this marvelous technology de jure, they can't.

About sums it up I think, how about you ?

T

(in reply to pahunkboy)

Profile

Post #: 3

RE: NTSB investigation of Metrolink crash in LA area - 9/15/2008 10:57:49 AM

pahunkboy

Posts: 33061
Joined: 2/26/2006
From: Central Pennsylvania
Status: offline

A few roads around her are designed for the extreme dummy.

it all reminds me of the 6th grade. we could add and do math.. then calculators came out.

it was never the same....

(in reply to Termyn8or)

Profile

Post #: 4

RE: NTSB investigation of Metrolink crash in LA area - 9/15/2008 11:29:53 AM

Vendaval

Posts: 10297
Joined: 1/15/2005
Status: offline

In one interview, a NTSB spokesperson mentioned that the cause of an accident is rarely one mistake only. The investigation will be checking for mechanical or electrical failures, loss of communication, operator error, etc. Another possibility is that the engineer suffered a heart attack or stroke while on the job. The investigation will take upwards of several months to a year.

_____________________________

"Beware, the woods at night, beware the lunar light.
So in this gray haze we'll be meating again, and on that
great day, I will tease you all the same."
"WOLF MOON", OCTOBER RUST, TYPE O NEGATIVE

http://KinkMeet.co.uk

(in reply to pahunkboy)

Profile

Post #: 5