bottom of the hour now. good to have you with us on new day. we re following new developments in this week s deadly amtrak derailment. the fbi has been called in to investigate now. and the ntsb says it believes the train may have been struck by some sort of object before it flew off the tracks. this is just one of three possible projectile incidents. look at the screen. you ll see them in the red circles on three separate trains. the incidents took place of 30 minutes within each other tuesday night. six people were killed and two people died later at the hospital when train 188 derailed. some victims of the boston bombings say they feel they can move forward now that the bomber has been sentence. a jury nanuly agreed on the
a former train accident investigator for an insurance company and cnn analyst phillip holloway with me in atlanta. good to see all of you. this investigation is looking into the possibility that the train had been struck by some sort of projectile. so richard, you ve worked on crash reconstructions, what is the possible link between something hitting a windshield and the train accelerating as rapidly as it did? well the correlation is the fact that he was accelerating he would have had his throttle wide open trying to get up to track speed. had there been some sort of an event like something hitting his windshield and he would not know exactly what hit his windshield all he knows is he s traveling along and boom something large hits. he doesn t know whether it s a gunshot, something large being thrown something being kicked up from the track. he just doesn t know. so he may have done something like dive to the floor, or you know jumped out of the way,
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however, messing with the train is a federal offense. and that s why the fbi s called in. and the investigation with the faa, if there s anything that looks criminal at all, we immediately notify the fbi, and they may even take over the investigation, depending on the severity. do you expect that to happen, tom? well, not at this point. i think right now, they just work very closely with the ntsb and the forensics experts from both agencies work all the time together, as david mentioned. not only in airline crashes but this type of thing. you even have road crashes where the ntsb might investigate serious traffic accidents. but could have been the result of somebody throwing a brick off a bridge hitting the windshield of a truck and it strikes other vehicles and causes massive accidents. any type of sabotage that is criminal, the fbi would have it. and both agencies work closely
back to new york. but explain more about this malfunction that happened. and what the engineer would have had to do at that time to slow the train down to get it under control. there is a signaling system that is in use for almost a hundred years in the northeast corridor on trains which is called a cab signal system, that s essentially a supplemental and backup signal signaling apparatus. in the particular case of the trip down, and the way that it impacted that trip in a very significant way. it was necessary to cut back that system out, in order to be able to continue to move the train. that institutes a series of rule changes, procedure changes that,