Looks like Norfolk Southern Railroad is engaging in a little Cover-Your-Ass action here.
From the Columbus, OH ABC affiliate:
Norfolk Southern wiped out most of video leading up to East Palestine derailment
Norfolk Southern wiped out most of a video in the train cab that could have provided crucial information about the East Palestine derailment, the head of the agency investigating the crash says.
While the camera in the locomotive has 12 hours of recording time, “all of that – except 15 minutes before the derailment and 5 minutes after – was overwritten after the accident because they put the locomotive immediately back in service,” Jennifer L. Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, told ABC 6 On Your Side.
That means everything except for those 20 minutes around the derailment was recorded over. And thus, investigators cannot check video from the inward-facing camera to see what the three-person train crew was doing earlier in the trip.
If the camera is anything like any other camera out there, it stores the video on an SD-RAM card or some other form of portable media. Standard proceedure for any accident would be to preserve evidence - in this case, pop out the memory, spend $20 at WalMart for a new card and preserve the old one.
Ms. Homendy is perfect for leading the investigation - excerpts from her bio:
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- she served as the Democratic Staff Director of the Subco...
- held positions with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters
- also Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO
- involved with the Norman Y. Mineta Research and Special Programs...
Democrat and Union activist. Mineta founded the TSA - there is a reason they are called Mineta's Morons.
Rot starts at the head of the fish and all that good stuff...
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