Bergen County Man Tells Of Chaos Abroad Amtrak Train In Philadelphia

Duy Nguyen was talking to wife on the phone last Tuesday when he noticed the train tilted strangely to one side. Then disaster occurred.

“I was thrown across the aisle to the right bank of seats,” Nguyen, a Teaneck resident, told NorthJersey.com. “Seats were being dislodged. Cushions blew around, and I knew that my back and legs hurt.”

Eight people died and more than 200 were injured when the Amtrak train went into a turn at an estimated 106 miles per hour and derailed.

The engineer at the center of the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) investigation of the deadly derailment did not reveal to investigators that the train might have been hit by a foreign object, officials said.

“We interviewed the dispatchers and we listened to the dispatch tape, and we heard no communications at all from the Amtrak engineer to the dispatch center to say that something had struck the train,” NTSB investigator Robert Sumwalk told ABC and CNN.

The engineer, Brandon Bostian, told investigators he doesn’t remember what happened leading up to the crash.

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Photo courtesy of NTSB