do you think that s the right thing to do? they re going to be homing in on his conversations, everything he has done since he has been to work on the railroad. they re going to be looking at that day before, what he did. the event recorder will tell them a lot about how he treated the train as far as the speed restrictions and operating requirements. everything points to me that they need to look at his conversations and his training. they will go back and talk to his instructors, see who qualified him to operate on the territory, and see if there is anything. because he is not able to communicate what he did prior to that they re going to have to rely on the physical evidence, the event recorder and that type of information. so right now they have to treat him as if he didn t survive the crash. which obviously saying he doesn t remember anything. right. he had been an engineer for four years on amtrak. right. i know he was relatively new
we begin outfront tonight with the breaking news on the deadly amtrak crash. investigators now telling cnn that they are zeroing in on the engineers handling of the train. sources say they are looking into a range of possibilities. and tonight they say they are not ruling out something intentional. the fbi is also trying to figure out what may have caused that speeding train to derail. eight died, more than 200 injured. tonight they are ruling out one thing. they are ruling out the possibility that a bullet was what damaged the train s windshield. investigators are still looking to determine, though, if the train was hit by another object and what role that could have played in the crash if so. a review of the train s black box has been completed. the ntsb has found no indication let me repeat no indication of mechanical failure at all. that s perhaps why they re zeroing in on the engineer. rene marsh is outfront where amtrak service resumed today. rene, the investigation is focusi
to this route. i guess the question for you, andrew, do you think there is something to be said for that s not enough experience? i don t know that it is enough experience. he is traveling on this particular this particular track is the busiest corridor in the united states. and i m not sure how familiar he was with this specific set of tracks at night. he clearly should have known there was a curve coming up if he had had enough experience to know that. i ve heard rumors that the train was late in departing, at least half an hour late. perhaps he thought he should accelerate to make up some time and took it too far. we ve seen only last month a pilot at germanwings actually intentionally crash an airplane. i m not suggesting that this engineer did that. but those are things that have to be looked at because his conduct right now is inexplicable. and jim, they re not taking something intentional off the table there is a lot of things still on the table. i want to emphasize that.
investigation, erin that they have completed the analysis of the black boxes. so far no indication of mechanical failure. but an ntsb source does stress that it is still very, very early in the investigation. too early to rule anything out at this point. they say that they will not have an exact cause until the conclusion of this investigation, which could take 12 whole months. erin? and rene the train, what we do know, right, 106 miles an hour at the time of the crash, more than twice the speed limit. this is the thing that nobody has been able to explain, right, why the train would suddenly and in the space of about 45 secondsing a little bit less accelerate like that. at this time what are they saying about whether that acceleration was intentional? well, they have something that is very valuable which is the train s recorders. and based on the data from the train s recorders, the ntsb is saying that this engineer
manually moved the throttle forward to increase the speed of the train there is no question about that. the question is though why did he do that and what happened after. why wasn t this train slowed down as it approached that 50 miles per hour curve. that remains on the answered erin. thank you very much rene marsh. we should emphasize when they talk about so many things still being on the table, including something intentional, the engineer did at the very last moment hit the engineer brakes. he did try to slow down. right now transportation attorney and who investigated rail accidents for 18 years. jim, you heard rene. you and i have spoken before about this crash. and you had said look i don t buy into the projectile. they are now firmly saying it was not a bullet. that was certainly not something that is to blame here. they re now focusing in on the engineer brandon bastion.