Federal investigators say they’re still trying to determine whether an Amtrak engineer used his cellphone at the controls of the train in a deadly derailment in Philadelphia.
The National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday records show calls were made, texts were sent and data was used on Brandon Bostian’s phone the day of the crash.
They say they’re comparing the timing of the phone activity with data from the locomotive’s event recorder and outward facing video, radio communications and surveillance video.
Bostian’s lawyer says he kept the phone in a bag, using it only to call 911 afterward.
The May 12 derailment killed 8 people and injured more than 200. Investigators are looking into why the Washington-to-New York train was going double the 50 mph limit around a sharp curve.
(AP)
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That’s rich. The records say that he was talking, texting and using data but his lawyer said he wasn’t. Yeah, I trust his lawyer.
@YJF
“The National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday records show calls were made, texts were sent and data was used on Brandon Bostian’s phone the DAY of the crash.”
Not while it crashed, but the DAY of the crash. Read before you comment.
Sorry all it says so far is the date of the crash not the time of the crash. that could have been before he even started driving.
So basically his phone was in his bag the entire and luckily when the train derailed and everybody got thrown about his bag landed close enough to him that he was able to grab his phone and call 911…..wow lucky…can you imagine if his bag didn’t miraculously land right near him that he found it otherwise it would be nearly impossible to find it in the wreck……for those of you that haven’t caught on I’m being sarcastic!
YJF: Don’t trust Fed officials that leak information that often turns out to be inaccurate.
You haven’t read what they said. He used his phone in Wednesday, but they haven’t said if it was at the time of the derailment.
1: The records say “the day of the crash”
People read what they want to, not what is on the page.
What’s on the page is often enough wrong itself.