department. just awful to think about. george bible, what are your other key questions? . well, obviously, what caused the accident, and again, it s kind of early to hear that. certainly going too fast on a curve is problematic, but that seems to rarely happen. it certainly was the cause in the philadelphia accident that killed eight in 2015. in spain they had a terrible derailment and they were going twice the speed 100 miles an hour on a curve and they killed 79. they had the misfortune to derail on a massive concrete bridge above them. yeah. they keep saying, you know, they re so grateful. it could have been so much worse, but i have to tell you, just looking at these picture, it s pretty bad. we don t know the numbers of
saying that that signifies emergency officials some looks of bodies. i still have richard beale and george bible with me, and richard beale, just looking at the placement, the precarious placement and the dangling of these cars, i m thinking of the people who survived, how did they even begin to get them out? well, we don t know that they ve got them all out yet, but when you have a situation such as this where you have rail cars that are unstable, they re going to have to enter them by one of two ways. try to get the prize open, the rear doors between the two cars which is extremely dangerous at this point, but there are emergency windows on every single passenger car that you can pull the rubber gaskets out and release the actual glass and get in there by buckets or by ladders from the fire
metric tons or close to a quarter million pounds and as this goes around the corner there s a lot of force trying to make it lean out from the tracks the faster it goes the more that force is pushing to the side. if the gravity is enough then it stays put, but what about the cars in the back there was a difference to passengers who said they felt like they were flying off the tracks. and a train in the spanish plane crash. all of that is why investigators from the very beginning are looking at excessive speed. tom foreman, thank you very much. let s talk about this now. george bible the author of train wrecks an engineering
well they re following standard procedures too. the union gets him a lawyer and i d want one. i can imagine break failure, i don t think that happened. i haven t seen one since 1953 sk and the breaks have redundant systems, so it s not on my list of expectations. but, george, anytime something happens, anytime tlsz something happens, anytime there s an accident, i was told you recall your story as soon as is it happened because the longer it goes on the chances are that you may forget some of the details, no? i don t know what to tell you. i m a mekanchanical engineer and