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of the locomotive cab, the center line, over here is where the engineer s windshield is. over here is the other windshield. and in the lower portion of the left-hand windshield, there s a circular pattern that emanates out just a bit. did something strike that amtrak train at the locomotive before it derailed? is that part of what happened here? the ntsb tonight saying they are looking at damage on the left side of the windshield. so that would be on the right side of your screen. they re describing this crew member s account, obtained just today in this interview, which says the train may have been hit by something, shortly before that crash. could that possibly explain what happened? again, the engineer says he remembers nothing in the moments leading up to the derailment itself. joining us now is fritz edler. mr. edler is a veteran amtrak engineer and a union officer from the brotherhood of locomotive engineers and trainmen, and he is someone who has operated this same model train
engineer had reported to the train dispatch her that he had either been hit by a rock or shot at. and that the septa engineer said that he had a broken windshield and he placed his train into emergency stop. she also believed that she heard the engineer say something about she also believed that she heard her engineer say something about his train being struck by something. our investigation is not independently confirmed this information, but we have seen damage to the left-hand lower portion of the amtrak windshield that we have asked the fbi to come in and look at for us. if you re standing in the middle of the locomotive cab, the center line, over here is where the engineer s windshield is. over hoar is the other
not a new relationship. the fbi obviously has been asked to come in and analyze that damage. and try and i had tiedentify what might have actually hit the train. the question is whether that whatever hit the train was accidental to the accident or directly relate to the accident itself. denieding on ing depending on their analysis will affect the direction the accident investigation takes. here is how robert sumwalt described the damage. let s listen. if you re standing in the middle of the locomotive cab over here is the engineer s wind shield, here the other. and lower portion of the left hand windshield, there is a circular pattern that emanates out just a bit. what are the factors that investigators use in trying to determine what caused that
forward-facing image recorders and inward-facing image recorders. so something that would get a video image, video and audio image of what s going on inside the locomotive cab, as well as the outward-facing cameras, and, of course this train did have an outward-facing camera. we also feel it s important to the have the inward-facing cameras. the fra, that issue, that recommendation was issued in 2010 when we completed our investigation of that accident out in chatsworth california and the fra replied that they do intend to act upon that recommendation. there s a lot to be done. i think over the last few days we ve gotten a lot done. but this will be our final press briefing on-scene. future information on this accident will be coming from our press office in washington,