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   PHILADELPHIA — On a day when rescue workers pulled an eighth   
   body from the wreckage of an Amtrak railcar, the revelation that   
   the train was going much too fast when it hurtled off the tracks   
   in Philadelphia has turned the attention of investigators onto   
   the 32-year-old engineer who was driving the train and why he   
   reacted too late to slow it down as he went into a curve.   
      
   The engineer, Brandon Bostian, “has absolutely no recollection   
   of the incident or anything unusual,” Robert Goggin, who was   
   identified as Mr. Bostian’s lawyer, said Wednesday on ABC News.   
   “The next thing he recalls is being thrown around, coming to,   
   finding his cellphone and dialing 911.”   
      
   The National Transportation Safety Board is studying the data   
   from the train’s “black box” recorder for clues to what   
   happened, but as questions mount about his role in the crash   
   Tuesday night that killed eight people and injured more than   
   200, Mr. Bostian, himself, may not be of much help in answering   
   them. Officials said during a news conference that the eighth   
   body was found by a cadaver-sniffing dog Thursday morning in the   
   first car, which remained at the crash site.   
      
   “All individuals who we believe were on that train have now been   
   accounted for,” Mayor Michael A. Nutter of Philadelphia said   
   Thursday afternoon. The person found dead Thursday morning was   
   the last of those to be located.   
      
   Amtrak has said that there were 238 passengers and 5 crew   
   members aboard the train, and late Wednesday, officials had said   
   fewer than a dozen remained unaccounted for.   
      
   The safety board said the engineer triggered the emergency   
   brakes seconds before the wreck, with the train speeding at 106   
   miles an hour, but crucial questions about his actions, and   
   whether he was to blame for the excessive speed, remain   
   unanswered.   
      
   Mr. Goggin said his client, who had not taken drugs or alcohol,   
   suffered a head wound in the crash that required 14 stitches,   
   and a leg wound that was stapled, and turned his cellphone over   
   to the police; investigators in train crashes routinely look   
   into whether engineers are distracted by things like calling or   
   texting.   
      
   Mr. Bostian’s social media profiles describe him as being from   
   Memphis, a graduate of the University of Missouri who had joined   
   Amtrak as a conductor in 2006, and became an engineer in 2010.   
   He lives in a six-story brick apartment building in the Forest   
   Hills section of Queens, where neighbors described him as quiet   
   and polite. No one answered his apartment door.   
      
   Mayor Michael A. Nutter of Philadelphia said the engineer was   
   interviewed by the Philadelphia police, but he has not spoken   
   with the safety board.   
      
   “We certainly want to be able to interview him as soon as he’s   
   available and ready — I mean mentally and physically,” said   
   Robert L. Sumwalt, the board member overseeing the   
   investigation. “You can imagine if you’d been injured pretty   
   badly in an accident, you may not have all of your faculties   
   available. We want to make sure when we do talk to him, that’s   
   he’s able to give us an accurate account of what he does   
   remember.”   
      
   The engineer is not required to talk to the board, he said, but   
   “We do find that in most cases the people involved in these   
   accidents do want to talk to us because they’re interested in   
   safety; they want to find out what happened to prevent it from   
   happening again.”   
      
   The black box data showed that Amtrak’s Northeast Regional Train   
   188, bound from Washington to New York, was going more than   
   double the speed limit of 50 m.p.h. on a sharp curve when it   
   derailed.   
      
   Mr. Sumwalt said that on Thursday, investigators will conduct a   
   3-D laser scan of the two remaining rail cars here at the   
   derailment site, allowing them to record the exact position of   
   the wreckage before removing it. He said they will also examine   
   video recorded by a front-facing camera on the train’s   
   locomotive, and conduct testing of the brake system.   
      
   http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/us/philadelphia-amtrak-train-   
   crash.html?_r=0   
      
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