Let's see, the locomotive engineer claims he was mesmerized, in a trance as he accelerated the train after the TSR north of CP 12 on MNR's Hudson Line.
And NTSB, determined to leave no stone unturned provides for a post-accident sleep test (which is a good idea, along the lines of post-accident tox testing. I mean if fatigue is going to be an issue, we ought to at least know if the source of the fatigue is in the work schedule, or in the employee's (s') physical being) and comes up with a diagnosis of severe obstructive sleep apnea, and hats off, and eyes wide open to NTSB for doing the right, responsible thing...
And a reasonable person, someone at least as reasonable as this locomotive engineer's general chairman might put 1 & 1 together and determine a root cause for this human factors fatal accident just might have been chronic obstructive sleep apnea, rather than criminal negligence, homocide, manslaughter, total irresponsibility, and/or nobody gives a rat's ass.....
And FRA does not issue an emergency order requiring all locomotive engineers operating single-person-in-cab trains be screened for sleep apnea? Does not demand that regardless of union objections, of which there will be many, railroads submit a program for testing candidates for safety critical positions for sleep apnea, and utilize, and develop, profiles, models, to determine the likelihood of current locomotive engineers suffering sleep apnea, so that the engineers can be evaluated?
What was it Ripley said at the company hearing regarding the destruction of the M class star-freighter Nostromo?
I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid
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