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<p>[quote user="Euclid"]The day after the wreck, the NTSB told us they would interview the engineer in “one or two days.”[/quote]</p> <p>They said a bit more IIRC: they added "if their health status allows"</p> <p>And here quotes from the article you linked:</p> <div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><em>But the federal agency has been unable to interview the engineer, or the other crew member who was in the lead locomotive, because of their injuries sustained in the crash.</em></span></div> <div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><em>Peter Knudson, an NTSB spokesman, said investigators don't have an estimate as to when they'll be able to interview the engineer and the conductor. He said such a delay is not unusual when crew members are injured.</em></span></div> <div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><em><span lang="EN-US">"It's really uncertain what their recovery schedule is going to be," Knudson said. </span>"We've made our intention known."</em></span></div> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><em><span style="line-height:115%;"> Sim Osborn, a Seattle plaintiffs attorney who said he expected to file a lawsuit related the crash in the next few days, said the engineer would almost certainly not talk to investigators without a lawyer. </span></em><span style="line-height:115%;">End of quote</span></span><span style="color:#333333;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:#1272b4;"><br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Why this impatience? Does the delay of the interviews really matter in an investigation that take one to two years? Does the engineer have to answer NTSB questions?</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Here is the Preliminary Report of 01/04/2018 mentioned in the article: </span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/RRD18MR001-prelim.pdf">https://ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/RRD18MR001-prelim.pdf</a></span><br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Regards, Volker</span></span></p> <p> </p>
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