[HN Gopher] The Amagasaki Derailment [video]
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The Amagasaki Derailment [video]
Author : guerrilla
Score : 23 points
Date : 2023-01-15 20:25 UTC (2 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.youtube.com)
| cobbzilla wrote:
| see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagasaki_derailment
| frosted-flakes wrote:
| The video seems to be based on the Wikipedia article almost
| point-for-point.
| BuckyBeaver wrote:
| There is no video of the wreck.
| neilv wrote:
| This is a tragic event, which we should learn from, so that we
| are less likely to make analogous mistakes.
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| Besides whatever causal chains contributed to the derailment,
| there were already multiple signs of some kind of immediate
| problem, _when they were stopped at a station_.
|
| At that point, someone (including the driver) could've said a few
| things went wrong on the trip, and something isn't right, so,
| "out of an abundance of caution", held the train at the station.
| Then, whatever checklist of mechanicals after what had just
| happened, while swapping out the crew (to get their report, and
| to remove them as an immediate risk just in case they were
| somehow impaired).
|
| It could be treated as commendable professionalism, to hand over
| the controls after any small incident, as a matter of standard
| practice, more important than hitting the on-time metric window.
| (Towards the end of the video, they go into how this didn't seem
| to be the culture.)
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| Then the impact would've been (guessing) a couple hours of
| cascading significant commuter delays, due to the stopped train
| -- rather than 106/107 dead, and 562 injured.
|
| Doubly tragic, that they could see something was urgently wrong,
| and all they needed was one person to say to hold the train.
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