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It also tells you that the energy that you ve got in a moving vehicle increases doesn t increase linearly it increases exponentially. this train at 100 miles an hour had four times as much energy as a train going at 50 miles an hour. it also tells you, i don t know what the stopping distance on this train was, ntsb will use a computer program to figure that out. depend on this the grade, depend on this the weight of the train, et cetera. but usually stopping distances on trains like this are measured in miles. a mile, a mile and a half two miles, somewhere on that order. of course here you didn t even have seconds before he hit those brakes. if you listen to sumwalt carefully apparently he applied the brakes three seconds and slowed down by four miles an hour. what that tells you is they were committed to this crash long before they hit the curve. appreciate your time. as matthew said 106 when the brakes were applied, at the time of the crash it was 102. ....
Reckless endangerment criminally negligent homicide. not the same as murder but certainly lesser included offenses. similar to a driver who drives his car 100 miles an hour through a school zone and hits pedestrians. thank you very much andrew appreciate your time. outfront next a top north korea general reportedly executed in front of a crowd. a large crowd in a stadium. by anti-aircraft guns. one in a series of brutal executions in the dictate areship. what is happening to kim jong-un? they were mothers, fathers, there was a son. people heading home on the train. thinking about nothing. except for what was on their phone, getting home to see their families. ahead, we re going to remember those who lost their lives so awfully and unfairly in this crash. the beautiful sound of customers making the ....
I m erin burnett. outfront we begin with breaking news. the amtrak train that derailed near philadelphia was speeding big-time. traveling 106 miles an hour at the time of the crash. more than twice the 50-mile-an-hour speed limit. we are also just learning at this moment the engineer s name from three amtrak employees. here s what we can tell you. his name is brandon bostian. drew griffin is going to have much more on the man at the center of this in just a moment. the mayor of philadelphia on cnn calling that engineer reckless saying there s no excuse for the out-of-control speed. we also now know that bastian did apply the emergency brakes just before the crash but only slowed the train town to 102 miles an hour at impact. 102 to 102, then it crashed. you can see the curve where the train derailed. as you can see, it very sharp. horrific crash killing at least seven people. more than 200 injured, many of ....
Off the track and then they pulled the locomotive off behind them. all of this is the physics of a crash like this. and this is why investigators knew from the very beginning that they had to look at this pattern of the wreck itself and the video and say, maybe this train was just going too fast. all right, tom. thank you very much. pretty incredible. it does remind everyone of that crash in spain, a very similar situation. coming in at a similar speed to a curve with the same speed limit. and obviously the fatality rate there was incredibly high. outfront, matthew wall transportation safety expert. let me ask you, when you hear this, you heard the mayor of philadelphia he said this was reckless on the part of the engineer you just heard the passenger say he feels enraged and in488ed by this. does this appear to you at this point to be operator error, that it was the engineer who made the decision for this train to be going so fast? if it was a decision. he could have been textin ....
The pilot can give a command and the computer on the airplane will say, hey, boss you really don t want to do that it will refuse to do it. they could have done it in the germanwings crash. they could have programmed the plane so the plane knows where it is it knows there s no air field nearby it will refuse to go below a certain altitude. we don t operate a lot that way but we could. that raises its own questions. then you re using software you have hackable issues all kinds of things. when you look at the pictures as an expert at the derailment the first passenger car decimated, the other six also derailed three of them end up on their side. it almost looks like tonka toys in terms of how it happened. obviously this is all the physics of exactly how this occurred. when you see this crash and you see which ones went on the side which were flung from the tracks what does it tell you about the force and the derailment itself? it tells you that this train is a lot tougher than the sp ....