Re: Train Accident in Blue Mountains

["Richard Wardle" <ricdeb@mpx.com.au>]

> It is certainly not unknown for some Intercity V sets to be in less than
> peak mechanical condition,

<SNIP>

I myself have had to front an enquiry concerning the braking of V sets owing
to an overshoot. I was hauled over the coals even thou it was found that the
brakes were found to be less than satisfactory.
:((

> The enquiry should reveal all of the (sometimes random) factors which
> usually act in combination to cause a disaster. Without knowledge of all
of
> the mechanical, physical and human factors involved, most of the
"probable"
> cause theories are suspect at this point.

>