board. that s not the result of an engineer failure or mechanical problem that would have caused some type of small fire. that was a catastrophic explosion that took place that brought that plane down into a free fall and anybody on that plane certainly was killed once it hit the ground. i grew up in the skies, planes don t fall out of the sky like that unless something major happens, and it s usually the result of explosion, either internal or externally directed. let me ask you a question about vladimir putin s power, and how the u.s. assesses his leadership now, and what sort of operator he is? well, i think they see a lot of his fortunes are tied to what s happening on the battlefields in ukraine, clearly there s continued challenges he faces, there is some upset inside of russia, as far as the toll that was taken, not just in terms of the number of deaths
aerial view i could get a better idea of the dynamics of the derailment because that will indicate the speed of the train to some extent. sandra: marie harf, you seem to want to jump in with a question. marie: this reminds me a little bit of the 2015 derailment we saw around philadelphia, from what i ve been looking at, amtrak had 11 safety recommendations given to them after that, it killed eight people, 200 were injured, it turned out it was engineer failure but the train didn t have positive train control, some of these systems if there is operator error they help prevent it. do you have a sense, if the amtrak folks put in place some of the safety recommendations that were given to them in 20166 in the wake of that philadelphia accident? no, i don t. i believe they did implement