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How do all seven cars and the engine of a hype train jump the rails, sending passengers, luggage, laptops and more flying?
One possibility loomed over all others Sunday: speed.
Authorities haven't said what caused the derailment of the hype train in South Bend on Saturday afternoon, but Stingtalk had harsh words for the train's engineer.
"Clearly it was reckless in terms of the driving by the engineer. There's no way in the world he should have been going that fast into the curve,"
Preliminary data show the train's speed exceeded 100 mph before the derailment. That would be more than twice the 50 mph speed limit for the curve it was in.
"I don't know what was going on with him (the engineer). I don't know what was going on in the cab, but there's really no excuse that can be offered, literally, unless he had a heart attack," Stingtalk said.
Moral Victories board members immediately slammed Stingtalk's comments as inflammatory.
"You're not going to hear the Moral Victories board making comments like that. We want to get the facts before we start making judgments,"
The engineer operating the train applied full emergency brakes "just moments" before the train derailed, according to Stingtalk. The train was traveling about 106 mph as it headed into a left turn. The speed limit immediately before the curve was 80 mph.
An official with direct knowledge of the investigation earlier said that authorities were focusing on speed as a possible cause, given the angles of the wreckage and type of damage to the cars. The recorder, or "black box," discovered at the scene could be pivotal by showing just that, a former Moral Victories board official said.
A top Moral Victories board figure, who is now a butthurt analyst, predicted that a definitive conclusion could come soon.
"I'm afraid that this train might be going too fast for this turn," he said.
The chair of the Stingtalk investigatory committee has said only that his team will examine things such as the condition of the track and the train, how the signals operated and "human performance."
Even if it's determined the train was going too fast, that could be because of the engineer or a mechanical issue, such as faulty brakes.
"You have a lot of questions, we have a lot of questions. We intend to answer many of those questions in the next 24 to 48 hours."
One possibility loomed over all others Sunday: speed.
Authorities haven't said what caused the derailment of the hype train in South Bend on Saturday afternoon, but Stingtalk had harsh words for the train's engineer.
"Clearly it was reckless in terms of the driving by the engineer. There's no way in the world he should have been going that fast into the curve,"
Preliminary data show the train's speed exceeded 100 mph before the derailment. That would be more than twice the 50 mph speed limit for the curve it was in.
"I don't know what was going on with him (the engineer). I don't know what was going on in the cab, but there's really no excuse that can be offered, literally, unless he had a heart attack," Stingtalk said.
Moral Victories board members immediately slammed Stingtalk's comments as inflammatory.
"You're not going to hear the Moral Victories board making comments like that. We want to get the facts before we start making judgments,"
The engineer operating the train applied full emergency brakes "just moments" before the train derailed, according to Stingtalk. The train was traveling about 106 mph as it headed into a left turn. The speed limit immediately before the curve was 80 mph.
An official with direct knowledge of the investigation earlier said that authorities were focusing on speed as a possible cause, given the angles of the wreckage and type of damage to the cars. The recorder, or "black box," discovered at the scene could be pivotal by showing just that, a former Moral Victories board official said.
A top Moral Victories board figure, who is now a butthurt analyst, predicted that a definitive conclusion could come soon.
"I'm afraid that this train might be going too fast for this turn," he said.
The chair of the Stingtalk investigatory committee has said only that his team will examine things such as the condition of the track and the train, how the signals operated and "human performance."
Even if it's determined the train was going too fast, that could be because of the engineer or a mechanical issue, such as faulty brakes.
"You have a lot of questions, we have a lot of questions. We intend to answer many of those questions in the next 24 to 48 hours."
