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Re: Metrolink Black Box Questions - AMTK
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 09-16-2008 - 23:34

AMTK Wrote:
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> The NTSB needs to clarify whats going on here. The
> automatic brake valve is indeed in Emergency.
>
> [www.latimes.com]
> 9.jpg

My understanding of it is the the event recorder did not register an Emergency application having been made by the Metrolink engineer prior to the impact, and the consensus is that the handle was moved, um... shall we say, during a "post impact event."

The download from the UP locomotive shows that that engineer initiated an Emergency application two seconds before the impact.

Given the speed of both trains and the curve, I doubt anyone had much time to do anything other than say, "What the f...?!?!?!"

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  Metrolink Black Box Questions CWLee 09-16-2008 - 20:56
  Re: Metrolink Black Box Questions trainunkie 09-16-2008 - 21:31
  Re: Metrolink Black Box Questions AMTK 09-16-2008 - 22:24
  Re: Metrolink Black Box Questions - AMTK OPRRMS 09-16-2008 - 23:34
  Re: Metrolink Black Box Questions - for CWLee OPRRMS 09-17-2008 - 01:08
  Re: Metrolink Black Box Questions - for CWLee Tom 09-17-2008 - 02:57
  Re: Metrolink Black Box Questions - for CWLee J 09-17-2008 - 04:31
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