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NTSB: Canadian National failed to warn train before derailment
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<p>[quote user="Ulrich"]You hear about incompetence everywhere...CN certainly does not have the monopoly on that. They draw from the same labor pool everyone else does, so they too get their share of bad apples. <span style="color: #3366ff;">However one case doesn't necessarily point to a system wide problem</span> nor does it suggest that nobody at CN cares and that they willfully put their train crews in danger. Clearly someone didn't do his/her job...mistakes will happen as long as people remain imperfect. The safety board's conclusions were obviously right on the money...failure to inform the train crew of the impending danger would most certainly be a "mis communication"..or more precisely, a non communication...and you'd have to believe that unless you've got evidence that someone intentionally did not advise the crew. [/quote]</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">According to the article, the NTSB has said:</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">“There were missteps and miscommunications, procedures not followed and poor decisions.”</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">That sounds a lot more like a system failure than one person making a mistake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Can someone find and link the report so we can understand what actually happened? </span></span></span></p>
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