until 60 seconds before the train stopped that the engine throttle was stopped. five seconds before, the brakes enga engaged. more than 60 injured, four killed, including jim lovell. i m not the son of a victim, my dad was so much more than that. i don t want him to go down in history of somebody who just died. he was just the best father i could ever ask for. the black boxes are now under analysis in washington, d.c., while investigators continued searching for evidence at the site in the bronx near the hudson and harlem rivers, the union that represents the train s crews identified the engineer as rockefeller, jr., who was responsible for powering the train and brakes. had he is cooperating with investigators and turned over the cell phone, also telling the investigators he tried to slow the train and the brakes failed.
the ntsb has launched a team to investigate that deadly train derailment in new york. four people confirmed dead, 63 injured when a commuter train bound for grand central station jumped the track right along a steep curve and came to a stop just inches from the harlem river. one official said this is considered a slow-speed area, and the black box at the scene should be able to determine just how fast that train was traveling. new york governor andrew cuomo visited the scene earlier. there are a number of factors that can be looked at. the ntsb is going to do an investigation. speed is one of the things they ll look at. they ll look at track condition, et cetera. but we can t speculate on what they might find. all seven cars derailed just about 100 yards north of the
under those tipped train cars just to freeze some trapped passengers. this happened in the bronx area north of manhattan right near the merger of the hudson and harlem rivers. you can see from video at this scene one of those cars came to a stop on its side just inches from the harlem river. the area where that train came unhinged is a very steep curve. it s considered a slow-speed area. of course, the ntsb is going to determine what went wrong. we don t want to speculate, but there s at least one regular commuter on board who said he felt the train was going much faster than normal. yes, it was. i ve taken this train for close to 30 years. when it went around the curve, i mean, i actually looked up. i knew something it was going way too fast. i was very lucky. i was on the side of the train that went down, so i hit the window. all the chairs came out and a woman who was sitting across the aisle hit me and slid down when we slid down the hill.