(Source Toronto Star, March 7, 2012)
TORONTO — Canada’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) stressed it is not ready to attribute the derailment of VIA Rail train 92 to human error at this early stage of the investigation, but there are renewed calls for making voice recorders mandatory in Canada’s locomotive cabs, just as they are in airplanes and ships. The TSB has been recommending the recorders for all trains since 2003, but nothing has been done.
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