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Whole crew. Its not like an airplane where theres a copilot that can take over if something happens. This was one driver, one motor man driving the train. He had a heart attack and died at the controls with all of those rush hour commuters on board the train he was driving at speed. You know what happened to all those people on that nothing. Its very sad that the motor man died, but the people on board the train were completely safe when that happened even though it was middle of rush hour. The reason they were all okay is because of one specific thing. If youre a motor man or motor woman conducting a new york city subway train, you have to hold this handle down the way this person is holding it down in this picture. Tilting it back toward himself. If the person driving the train lets go of that handle on board the train, stops holding it down like that, that handle springs back up right and that brings the train to a stop. Its called a dead mans switch. If theres nobody there to hold

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