in the same area causing window damage. the engineer of the derailed amtrak train saying he still cannot remember anything in the minutes before the crash. brian yennous has more in philadelphia. reporter: hi julie. exactly right. the fbi had a presence here on the crash site from the very beginning but the ntsb asked them to analyze the lower left portion of the windfield for amtrak train 188, particularly a circular break that could have resulted from someone throwing or shooting something into the windshield. before the train crashed tuesday 9:21. an assistant conductor in the cafe car says she overheard the engineer talking by radio to a local septa train engineer they had both been hit by something before the derailment. she waumed edrecalled the septa engineer reported to the train
object thrown at the window, right before the train a crashed at 9:21 on tuesday night. anistant conductor in the cafe car of train 188 says she overheard the engineer talking by radio to a local train engineer that they had both been hit by something before the derailment. she recalled the septa engineer reported to the train dispatcher that a he had either been hit by a rock or shot at. the septa engineer said he had a broken windshield and placed his train into emergency stop. reporter: while a passenger on board that septa says he remembers amtrak train 188 going past their train while they were in that emergency stop and then getting news that it had crashed minutes later.