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The railway company that owned the runaway train which ignited deadly explosions in Lac-Megantic, Que. mentioned in a press conference that locomotive shutdown might have released the air brakes which were supposed to hold the 73-car train in place overnight. MMA, or Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, released a statement hinting towards the probable cause of the derailment in a statement Sunday afternoon.
In the press statement, MMA mentioned that “one fact that has emerged is the locomotive of the oil train parked at Nantes station was shut down subsequent to the departure of the engineer who had handled the train from Farnham, which may have resulted in the release of air brakes on the locomotive that was holding the train in place.” However, MMA still claimed that besides sharing its speculation, it does not have “complete information” regarding the exact chain of events that led to the disaster. It was alleged that the company investigation was infringed and halted by the government’s investigation into the derailment, hence its own investigation is “largely prevented” from being complete.
The Transportation Safety Board announced in a statement released on Sunday, that its nine designated investigators have completed the inspection of locomotive and recovered the train’s black box. However, the TSB refrained from speculating the exact cause of disaster that resulted in the death of five people and destroyed half of Lac-Megantic’s downtown core. So far, the facts of the situation are only limited to the information that the train carrying crude oil was parked and locked down on the tracks in Nantes, about 13 kilometres from Lac-Megantic, late Friday night.
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