make that kind of a dent would be very distracting. at the wrong time it could have delayed his response in reducing the throttles. i think it s still a stretch to say that s a causal factor. it was certainly a part of what happened here, though. so, david, i think for folks in the control room, if we had that map of this route, not the entire northeast corridor, but just the smaller section, in which we see that the last station that brandon bostian rest, and then headed to this turn and then headed north. according to the ntsb, he s been extremely cooperative, but he doesn t remember anything after ringing the bell after leaving that last station. we then head for a couple miles to the turn. and we ve learned that after that at least according to the the new york times, typically, they speed up to maybe 100 miles per hour, after making that turn. is it possible to think that this item that hit the windshield could have distracted him to the point that he thought
memorized. to think that a stone hitting or something distracted him that he would have hit that forward, there s a lot of safe guards that go in place as far as the training that go into this. although they can be improved as we talk about with the positive train controls as well. but where were they? we know he pulled brake just seconds before it hit that current and derailing. it took some time obviously to get up to the speed that it was unsafe before they got to 100 miles per hour? it did. there was obviously some kind of disconnect, whether it was in his mind, from the stone from whatever happened or if there was a literal mechanical disconnect between the throttles and what was going on with that engine. these are electric locomotive, we re talk about a rheostat. that comes through.
or just damaging the systems, the lights, the warning systems. the trains, the engineer driving the train. all of those aspects, if it were sabotaged, that would be a criminal investigation that the voo fbi would have. as far as an october hitting the windshield, whether that distracted or affected people in control of that train that will be part of investigation as well. david, do you see any plausible correlation between a projectile hit the train and this precipitous increase in speed? i ll tell you, it would be a real stretch. the only thing i could think, as tom mentioned, some kind of distraction, causing that distraction, where he didn t pay attention to where the throttles were at that time. you know, this train doesn t react immediately, although it s extremely powerful, 8,000 horsepower at your fingertips. and you push that forward, and it s going to react. but if possibly it was distracted, distracted at that time when he the throttle to
decreased two miles per hour before the crash, what does that tell you. clearly either the conductor or the engineer move the throttles to make the train go that fast or something for the throttles went haywire. and how how easy is it to determine that? do we have your audio back? clearly we are having a problem. let me try once more. john can you hear me it is anderson? we are clearly having trouble with john s audio and we ll try to restore that and get that working again. john are you there? can you hear me? no we re clearly having trouble with this. let s move on shall we. just ahead tonight, a amtrak
at the same speed as every other train except for this one curve. the red dot shows 188 accelerating to 106 miles per hour. what do you read into that? well, it s inexplicable. the only thing i can speculate is that the that the engineer had a loss of situational awareness, meaning he didn t realizeidt realize exactly where he was. he may have thought he wass further on in the in the route than he was. i doubt that there was a a failure of the throttles. that s a very rare in the engine history of railway engines. so it s inexplicable. okay, peter, it is good to speak with you again. we appreciate your insights. thank you. thank you. eight people were killed, more than 200 injured in tuesday s crash. u.s. president barack obama offered condolences to the