Philadelphia train crash engineer is lower than control heats

Philadelphia train crash engineer is lower than control heats

PHILADELPHIA / NEW YORK (Reuters) - a portrait of the engineer at the top which derailed a speeding Amtrak train in Philadelphia began on Thursday, when the man told lawyer, his client the crash could remember, and rescuers has caused an eighth body from the rubble.

Subjected to the engineer, with views of thorough examination, to his role in the accident Philadelphia police she said a criminal investigation in Tuesday it crash the New York-bound train in life called. The locomotive and all seven cars jumped the tracks during rolling in a curve at more than 100 miles per hour (160 kilometres per hour), twice the speed limit.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said that the engineer, as Brandon Bostian, 32, in the train emergency braking system seconds, before worked the wreck.

But his lawyer Robert Goggin, said Bostian could recall, hit the brakes or much else about the derailment, which injured a track left twisted metal and human carnage on the tracks, and more than 200 people.

NTSB member Robert Sumwalt, updating reporters on the Board probe into the cause of the wreck, agreed to be interviewed by agency investigators said the engineer, who gave him a day or two to recover initially from his injuries, and he was entitled, will be accompanied by his lawyer.
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"We are very pleased look forward to the opportunity to interview him." We appreciate this opportunity. "We feel this interview will give a lot of information", Sumwalt said.

Bostian was recovering in seclusion, although ground bits and pieces of his life began. He was a graduate of the University of Missouri with a business degree, engineer for more than four years after working with Amtrak conductor according to his LinkedIn page. In school, he worked in a target Corp. stores.

Bostian, who comes from Memphis, Tennessee, was as silent and modest people described by crossed his path in Forest Hills, a middle-class section of Queens, where he lives.

Jose Quinones, 65, Superintendent which large brick building where Bostian makes its home, said that he had lived an uncomplicated tenants for two or three years there. While polite, Bostian kept mostly to himself, Quinones said.

He said he was shocked to learn that the excesses of Bostian was involved. "I knew that he had this kind of job," he said.
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Three workers at the nearby Gloria pizza shop said Bostian a regular customer.

"He comes in a once or twice a week and ordered a piece," said a man named Tony, who did not want to publish his last name. "He's a nice guy, polite."

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But Yochana Mashat, 58, lives on the same floor as Bostian described its neighbor as reserved.

He said that he regularly with Bostian said, but never the elevator to him driving. "He is like a statue," said mashed potatoes.

Hours his Facebook Inc profile photo after the derailment, Bostian fainted, while dozens of his Facebook friends wrote comments, offer sympathy and support.
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Efforts to Bostians relatives and social media connections were unsuccessful.

"REMEMBER COMING IN THE CURVE"

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, said the engineer said off briefly with investigators in the hours after the crash, refused to be interviewed in depth.

Police Chief Inspector Joe Sullivan said at a press conference news of his Department an investigation with Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams has worked.

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Bostian was Goggin, his lawyer, cooperation with authorities, but had no memory of the crash and no explanation as to what happened.
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"He remembers coming into the turn, he recalls, attempting to reduce the speed, but he was unconscious just like all other passengers on the train," said Goggin ABCs "Good Morning America"-program.