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[quote user="henry6"] No, they are indicating that they don't know why the UP crew did not respond...if indeed they were sleeping or othierwise or unattentive was it because of fatigue or short call or didn't sleep enough before being called or something else?  They may be able to determine later.  They are promoting PTC here simply because PTC would have stopped the train when the engineer didn't.  Nothing political or subversive at all. [/quote] You are putting words in my mouth.  I never said their PTC agenda was subversive or political, so I don't know why you mention those sinister motives.  My only point is that the NTSB is blaming the crash on that fact that it was not prevented.  In my opinion, that is childish.  As to your first point:  The only lack of response by the engineer was a failure to resond to the signals.  But he made several control changes during the fatal approach including dumping the air about 5-10 seconds before impact.  There is no indication that the engineer was totally unresponsive as would be the case when sleeping.   So it is nonsense for the NTSB to say they can't rule out fatigue.  Aren't we all a little fatigued these days?  I know I am.
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