Was Amtrak 188 shot at? Drudge Report‘s headline story links to a New York Times story claiming a projectile may have hit Amtrak 188 before it derailed. Being that this is the New York Times, one has to wonder if the liberal rag is just trying to run interference for the engineer who was reportedly operating the train at twice the speed limit.
Another left wing website reports that the FBI is investigating and examing the windshield.
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The FBI will examine the windshield of the locomotive that derailed in Philadelphia, trying to determine if it was damaged by a projectile or a bullet before this week’s fatal crash, National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt told reporters Friday night.
This latest twist comes after an assistant conductor told investigators she believed she had overheard the train’s engineer talking about something striking the train, Sumwalt said.
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“Our investigation has not independently confirmed this information, but we have seen damage to the left-hand lower portion of the Amtrak windshield that we have asked the FBI to come in and look at for us,” he said.
If in fact that Amtrak 188 was was shot at, one has to then wonder, was this some sort of terrorist attack? Or just some punk thug who had nothing better to do than fire at the windshield of an Amtrak train.