NTSB says Amtrak engineer distracted by radio traffic in 2015 Philadelphia crash
Emergency workers and Amtrak personnel inspect a derailed Amtrak train in Philadelphia, May 13, 2015. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
Officials survey the site of a derailed Amtrak train in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 13, 2015. (Reuters/Mike Segar)
Officials survey the site of a derailed Amtrak train in Philadelphia, May 13, 2015. The accident left rail cars mangled, ripped open and strewn upside down in the city's Port Richmond neighborhood along the Delaware River. (Mike Segar/Reuters)
A worker passes one of the cars of a derailed Amtrak train in Philadelphia, May 13, 2015. (Mike Segar/Reuters)
WASHINGTON — The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has concluded that the engineer of an Amtrak passenger train that crashed in Philadelphia in 2015 was distracted by radio traffic, NBC News reported on Monday, citing an unnamed source.
The derailment on May 12, 2015, killed eight people and injured more than 200.
The engineer, Brandon Bostian, who suffered a concussion in the crash, told investigators he had no memory of what occurred after the train pulled out of the North Philadelphia station, just before the crash.
