(Source: CBC News, January 21, 2015)
OTTAWA, Ontario — The Transportation Safety Board did not retain the opinion of expert investigators when compiling its final report into what caused the train derailment and explosion that killed 47 people in July 2013.
In the initial report, Transportation Safety Board investigators were of the opinion that the fact the train didn’t have a 2-person crew contributed to the accident.
When the TSB’s final report came out, it listed 18 factors that led to the deadly crash — including a weak safety culture at the MM&A, and a lack of oversight from the government agency.
The issue of the one-man crew was reduced to a risk factor — not a contributing factor — in the derailment.
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