NTSB Faults Distracted Engineer In Fatal Philly Amtrak Crash

By Dan Packel ( May 17, 2016, 11:40 AM EDT) -- The National Transportation Safety Board concluded Tuesday that the engineer manning Amtrak train number 188, which caused eight deaths when it derailed in Philadelphia in May 2015, was distracted by radio transmissions and lost track of where the train was in the moments before the accident....

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