NTSB Hearing on the Metrolink/UP Accident 08

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : February 10, 2009
SB-09-05

NTSB TO HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON 2008 CHATSWORTH, CALIFORNIA RAIL COLLISION

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This is a Public Hearing about the Collision of Metrolink Train #111 and the UP Freight Train.


Link
www.ntsb.gov/Pressrel/2009/090210.html

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The NTSB will wrap up its hearing tomorrow on the Metrolink Accident. They will start they webcast at 6am (9am EST). And if anyone hasn't heard today.

NTSB Site

Link directly to the Hearing.

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www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_ntsb04.412d279.html

Four days later, on the afternoon Sept. 12, Sanchez was making arrangements for a different student to operate the train.

Seconds after sending a text message to the student, Sanchez's train carrying 220 passengers collided head-on with a Union Pacific freight train, investigators found.

My God.

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Metrolink is so shut down.