Philadelphia Amtrak derailment investigation doesn't rule out engineer's actions as potential cause
National Transportation Safety Board investigators have ruled out locomotive, track, and train signal issues as potential causes of May's Amtrak derailment, an agency official told The Wall Street Journal on Monday. The documents released leave open the possibility that the engineer's actions caused the derailment, which killed eight passengers and injured hundreds more.
Investigators have twice interviewed the engineer, Brandon Bostian, whom they described as cooperative. The train was running at more than twice the legal speed limit when it hit a tight curve. Bostian's attorney has said he has no recollection of the incident.
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