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Preserved LMS Stanier Class 8F locomotive of the sort involved in the accident. John Axon GC (4 December 1900 – 9 February 1957) [1] was an English train driver from Stockport (Edgeley Depot) who died while trying to stop a runaway freight train on a 1 in 58 gradient at Chapel-en-le-Frith in Derbyshire after a brake failure.
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Next night, little Jamie Jr. joins in as an observer for a seemingly 'easy job', only for Junior to fall asleep in the truck, while Jamie, Kevin and Brandon witnessed two more accidents in deteriorating weather and road conditions, turning it into a multi-car pileup, and Jamie ended up unnecessarily destroying the snow plow.
By the second series, episodes of 999 included more reconstructions. [2] While recreating an accident for an episode in 1993, veteran stuntman Tip Tipping was killed in a parachuting accident. [ 3 ] In September 2002, it was announced that the series had been cancelled.
The accident was investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board, which determined the probable cause of the accident to be: . a lack of proper crew coordination, including a virtual reversal of roles by the DC-9 pilots, which led to their failure to stop taxiing their airplane and alert the ground controller of their positional uncertainty promptly before and after intruding onto the ...
The crash was the subject of a Discovery Channel television series Curiosity 2-hour episode "Plane Crash". [14] [15] The episode was aired on 7 October 2012, and narrated by Josh Charles. [15] [16] The 1-hour-35-minute episode "The Plane Crash" aired on Channel 4 in Britain on 11 October 2012. [17] [18] The program garnered criticism in Britain ...
The accident was the basis for a PBS Frontline episode on the regional airline industry. Discussed in the episode were issues relating to regional airline regulation, training requirements, safety and working conditions, [ 46 ] as well as the operating principles of regional airlines and the agreements between regional carriers and major airlines.
The accident investigation was subsumed into a judicial inquiry under a judge, Virgil P. Moshansky. His report showed that competitive pressures caused by commercial deregulation cut into safety standards and that many of the industry's sloppy practices and questionable procedures placed the pilot in a very difficult situation.