Don’t Text and Control a Train
September 16, 2008 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Cellphones
According to the most recent reports, one minute before the collision, the engineer responsible for the crash sent a text message from his cell phone, apparently just one of several messages that had been exchanged between him and two teenagers before the disaster.
The National Transportation Safety Board has reportedly contacted the two 14-year-old boys, who’ve admitted exchanging text messages with the train engineer. Although the name of the engineer has not been made public, he is believed to be responsible for the accident, which resulted in 25 fatalities, including him.
Scary. Maybe we’ll be sticking to flights over the water, where pilots are mostly out of the range of cellular networks. Full article at efluxmedia.com.
