LAKE BUENA VISTA -- The National Transportation Safety Board has released hundreds of documents in the deadly Disney monorail crash from 2009.
Disney monorail pilot Austin Wuennenberg, 21, died when two monorails collided at the Transportation and Ticket Center, located at the parking lot of the Magic Kingdom, as guests were leaving the park following a Fourth of July fireworks show.
One particular area of interest is the NTSB interview with the manager on duty that night. According to the interview, no one was at the radio and the supervisor was eating a meal off property.
An interview with train coordinator David Gilmore lays out how the accident happened.
Gilmore was on the clock, but off site eating a meal when he gave the okay for his coordinator to go home sick. He was still off site when the order was made for the pink monorail to start backing up.
Moments later the pink monorail collided with the purple monorail being driven by Wuennenberg.
Alan Rubino was driving the pink monorail at the time of accident. In his interview he said backing up is like flying blind at fifteen miles an hour.
"You just trust that everything is fine," Rubino said. He was still backing up when his monorail crashed into an Wuennenbrg's. "I felt the boom and I just, I was.. I didn't know what happened at first. I had no idea whatsoever."
The documents detail many aspects of the case, including interviews with officials and witnesses to train inspection data.
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Disney monorail pilot Austin Wuennenberg, 21, died when two monorails collided at the Transportation and Ticket Center, located at the parking lot of the Magic Kingdom, as guests were leaving the park following a Fourth of July fireworks show.
One particular area of interest is the NTSB interview with the manager on duty that night. According to the interview, no one was at the radio and the supervisor was eating a meal off property.
An interview with train coordinator David Gilmore lays out how the accident happened.
Gilmore was on the clock, but off site eating a meal when he gave the okay for his coordinator to go home sick. He was still off site when the order was made for the pink monorail to start backing up.
Moments later the pink monorail collided with the purple monorail being driven by Wuennenberg.
Alan Rubino was driving the pink monorail at the time of accident. In his interview he said backing up is like flying blind at fifteen miles an hour.
"You just trust that everything is fine," Rubino said. He was still backing up when his monorail crashed into an Wuennenbrg's. "I felt the boom and I just, I was.. I didn't know what happened at first. I had no idea whatsoever."
The documents detail many aspects of the case, including interviews with officials and witnesses to train inspection data.
Story provided by: cfnews13.com
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