New footage of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, showed the train catching fire roughly 20 minutes outside of the town, leaving residents to wonder whether the disaster could have been avoided.
The National Transportation Safety Board obtained two videos of the train derailment on Feb. 3. One of the videos showed sparks underneath one of the 140 train cars near the town of Salem, Ohio. If the crew on the train had proper warning, they would only need 1 mile to brake."We have obtained two videos which show preliminary indications of mechanical issues on one of the rail car axles," NTSB member Michael Graham said at a press conference Tuesday.
A second video showed the train moving over a hotbox detector near Salem, which is supposed to flag the train's crew if one of the cars gets too hot. Graham said the crew was notified of a problem from one of the detectors, and they pressed the emergency brake. But he did not say whether the warning was from the hotbox detector.Investigators are now examining all the detectors on the train's route to determine where the error occurred.
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