[ bleep ], [ bleep ]. oh my god. you can hear the raw e motion, as you can imagine, afterwards of the survivors. joining us now is mary who is a transportation analyst. when alook at that video, i see a miracle, but i m guessing you have a more technical explanation, how did everyone survive this? the science of crash worthiness and aircraft cabin survivability. how many seconds do the passengers have to get out and that has been studied extensively. 33 years ago today, the crash of delta airlines 191 in dallas on august 2nd, 1985, and wind here,
by. remind me and our viewers why there are still no seatbelts on the trains. that was interesting. i was going to mention that. they debaded that issue for 20 years. it would not have prevented the injuries that occur inside. they would look at that again. they will see whether the crash worthiness for the portions of the interior of the car. i was going to say the real question is, if we are going to have high speed rail service in the united states, inner city
killed in the fire that started about a minute after the impact, saying porsche failed to provide an electronic stability control device that would have prevented the car from losing control. the lawsuit also says the side doors were not strong enough, allowing the light post to penetrate the passenger compartment, sending the shoulder and lap belts in different directions, crushing his body and pinning him in the car when the fire sparked that killed him. it looks like porsche cut corners in the crash worthiness of the car, with the side structure and the fuel system. reporter: safety experts say high end sports car are not crash tested by federal and consumer agencies. san diego attorney craig mclellan filed and settled a lawsuit against porsche, when a man was killed in a carrera gt in 2006. the porsche carrera gt in particular is designed and advertised to be driven at high
where everyone was seated and correlate that to the injuries sustained. i think that will tell us a lot about the crash worthiness of these cars as well as the survivability issues. this is a hard thing to figure out, unlike an airplane, you have no sense of where people were? but the good thing is, there are a lot of survivors and they can tell us, well, i was seated about here, that s the good thing. thank you very much really appreciate it. earlier today i got into a helicopter to retrace amtrak northeast regional out of the philadelphia train station, get a firsthand look at the crash site. we are currently hovering over 30th street station here in downtown center city philadelphia. you see below us, 30th street station, the main rail station. that is where the last safe stop was made for that amtrak train headed northbound. we will take you now north along those tracks. you can see how slowly that train is going.
crashworthiness of the cars where people were sitting and where they ended up. there s a whole lot of information there. and i think one would hope that the rail systems in this country would take a good look at this because as you probably know this is not the first time we ve seen an accident like this on even the northeast corridor route. bob halstead the lead car survived intact. the second car is a mangled wreck. what can investigators tell from the position and condition of these cars? well a wreck like this can probably be computer simulated. and that s probably one of the things that the ntsb and other