Anyone saw Unstoppable (Runaway Train)?

[hh5]

The Movie - Unstoppable 2010 

Can Captain Kirk and Mr Flight stop a runaway from decimating a town with a population of 752K people

39 car train thats packed like missile the size of a skyscraper 

Train 777

 

Unstoppable is based on a real incident that happened in 2001, when an unmanned train carrying toxic chemicals sped through several towns in Ohio, USA before it was eventually stopped.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSX_8888_incident

 

In the film, Denzel Washington plays veteran railroad engineer Frank Barnes and Chris Pine (Star Trek) is his partner, rookie train conductor Will Colson. When all attempts to stop an unmanned train carrying toxic molten phenol fail—an illustration of Murphy’s Law multiplied by 70 miles per hour—Barnes and Colson hatch a dangerous plan to stop it before it hits a railroad curve at the town of Stanton, Pennsylvania, where experts predict it’s sure to derail and cause a devastating explosion. 

 

 

 

Real Life

Canada runaway train: Lac-Megantic death toll rises

'Like an atom bomb'

The train's 73 cars carrying pressurised containers of crude oil reportedly uncoupled from five locomotive engines parked outside the town around 01:00 (06:00 BST) on Saturday, gathering speed as they rolled down the tracks before derailing in Lac-Megantic.

 

Eyewitnesses said that by the time the cars reached the town they were travelling at considerable speed.

 

Witnesses said the town center, which included bars as well as stores, a library and residential streets, was crowded with weekend partygoers. The explosion destroyed dozens of buildings, many of them totally flattened, included the popular Musi-Cafe music bar, eyewitnesses said.

 

5 dead, At least 50 drinkers in bar feared dead after runaway train devastates Canadian town

 

The town population 6,000, the train carrying 73 cars of crude oil

 

The derailment caused several tanker rail cars to explode in the downtown district, a popular area packed with bars that often bustles on summer weekend nights. Police said the first explosion tore through the town shortly after 1 a.m. local time. The fire then spread to several homes.

 

Any reason why CNN didn't cover this as much as in addition to the Boeing 777 Air Crash?

(mmm the movie train #777)

The stats seems about similar

 

777-> 2 dead, 60 missing

Train-> 5 dead, 50 missing

 

Wow another derailment

More than 70 injured in Russia train derailment

A Russian passenger train has derailed while traveling from Siberia to Sochi, the future Olympic city on the Black Sea, and emergency officials say more than 70 people were injured.

t’s thought the driver applied the emergency brake after seeing the track had deformed due to heat, a police source said.

 

A 19-car train with 618 people on board derailed while en route to the Black Sea resort of Adler. In total 11 cars derailed with five overturned happened in the Kuschevsky district of the southern Krasnodar region. 

 

Edited July 8, 2013 by hh5

[hh5]

It looks like Air plane disasters are more interesting than railway disasters

 

Well based on watching the news and the facts given it seens very similar to another accident

 

The symptoms of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 seems to be similar to this episode of Air Crash Investigation - S05E08 Mixed Signals (Birgenair Flight 301) ... crew failure to act ... stumped leader ... the good question what could cause the auto throttle to slow the air plane below 137 speed ... possibly something like pitot tubes got clogged ... the clog compressing the air can fool the computer that the plane is flying too fast ... the flustered training teacher and the inactive subordinates .. failed to acted because the leader is stumped ... perhaps the leader was never trained for this senerio 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARTfx7Xbgxs

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I'd hate to be that intern ,,, but it was funny if u had a sense of humor

he n the plane sure did get Bang Ding Ow

[Celethiel]

i don't know that i ever saw a runaway train, but I saw one on fire once, in fact it passed right underneath where I was walking....

[hh5]

Mexico train crash: Five dead from 'La Bestia' accident

Migrants are known to sit on the roof or cling to the sides of the train known as "la bestia"

Riding 'the Beast' from Mexico to the US

At least five people are dead after a cargo train notorious for transporting Central American migrants hoping to reach the US derailed in southern Mexico, authorities have said.

 

Officials said at least 35 people were injured, 16 gravely. It is feared the death toll could rise.

 

 

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articles noting the mistakes of the pilots asiana

* 46yo Pilot felt unprepared to land at specialty airport 

* Trainer Pilot was not prepared to be competent trainer that day

* 46yo failed to remember his flight instructions of Boeing 777

=> According to the report, Kuk's ground school instructor had instructed his students that when the automatic throttle is put in hold mode, it would not automatically re-engage in a descent.

=> Before the crash, Lee said he was not that confident about operating the Boeing 777s automated flights systems and felt he needed more study, according to the report.

 

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-asiana-crash-hearing-20131211,0,4178247.story#axzz2nC6VhD8M

 

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/9507058/Asiana-pilot-worried-about-ability-to-land

 

 

[hh5]

the last minute stories of the train crash town

 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/lac-megantic-musi-cafe/article15656116/

Last moments of Lac-Mégantic: Survivors share their stories

LAST CALL

On July 6, 2013, a runaway train carrying millions of litres of crude oil derailed in the heart of Lac-Mégantic. The tangled wreck exploded, transforming the town’s main drag into a river of fire. Many of the 47 people who died in the disaster were inside the Musi-Café, a popular bar packed with friends, lovers, neighbours, husbands and wives. The night of terror is told through the eyes of the survivors.

 

Edited December 12, 2013 by hh5