Official: Recovering train data recorder could take days
HOBOKEN, N.J. — It could be days before federal investigators working in 12-hour shifts clear enough debris to recover the data recorder from a train that crashed into a station, killing a woman and injuring more than 100 others.
National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Chris O’Neil described the effort as “complex” and said workers are going as “quickly as possible to make that happen.”
The effort comes as investigators learned that a separate device that was supposed to record the New Jersey Transit train’s speed and braking information wasn’t functioning, according to the National Transportation Safety Board Vice Chair T. Bella Dinh-Zarr.
The remaining data recorder, which officials said was likely to be newer than the nonworking device, is in the cab control car in the front of the train and has not been recovered because it is under a collapsed section of the station’s roof.