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Here is the mealy mouth doublespeak that I mentioned above as Burkhardt waffles back and forth with varying degrees of conviction during his blaming of the engineer Tom Harding.  (QUOTE FROM THE LINK) Residents... are calling on the head of the railway to take more responsibility after he said an engineer failed to set the hand brakes on the runaway train. “It’s very questionable whether the hand brakes were properly applied on this train,” Edward Burkhardt…told reporters yesterday. “As a matter of fact, I’ll say they weren’t, otherwise we wouldn’t have had this incident.” Burkhardt laid the blame for the crash on his own engineer for failing to properly apply hand brakes on the rail cars… He said his company’s inspection indicated the brakes were applied on the locomotives, but not on the rail cars. “We think he applied some hand brakes, the question is, did he apply enough of them?” Burkhardt said. “He’s told us that he applied 11 hand brakes and our general feeling now is that that is not true. Initially we took him at his word.”   <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-10/rail-world-ceo-says-quebec-train-brakes-not-set-properly.html">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-10/rail-world-ceo-says-quebec-train-brakes-not-set-properly.html</a>
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