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scienceplease 2
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 Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 7:37 am Post subject: Washington Train Crash Kills 9/11 General |
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20090624/pl_bloomberg/agu5lx16vtk8
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D.C. Crash Kills General Who Scrambled Jets on 9/11
Wed Jun 24, 11:40 am ET
June 24 (Bloomberg) -- David F. Wherley Jr., the head of the Washington National Guard who scrambled jets over the city during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was among those killed in the worst commuter train crash in the city’s history, officials said.
Wherley’s wife, Ann, was also among the nine people killed when a train plowed into the rear of a stopped train during rush hour on June 22, Quintin Peterson, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department, said in a telephone interview. Both were 62 and lived in southeast Washington.
Wherley was commander of the 113th Fighter Wing at Andrews Air Force base in Maryland during the September 2001 terrorist attacks and sent up aircraft with orders to protect the White House and the Capitol, according to the 9/11 Commission report.
He commanded the District of Columbia National Guard from 2003 to 2008, the unit said in a statement. |
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7015588138
| Quote: | The Metro train that crashed late Monday into another one parked in front of it was on automatic mode, and its operator had switched on the emergency brakes. The death toll in the worst train accident in the nation's capital has risen to nine.
The National Transportation Safety Board has found that the oncoming train had its emergency brake button pressed and brakes engaged at the time of the collision, the Washington Post quotes NTSB member Debbie Hersman as saying on Wednesday. The train also had its automated protection system on, and computers should have regulated its speed and prevented the crash |
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Them damm computers...
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redadare
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| Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 2:11 pm Post subject: 9/11 'Shoot Down' General dies in train crash |
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The US National Guard officer who finally gave the scramble order on 9/11, died in Washington Metros 'worst accident'. Major General David F Wherley Jr, said in an interview about 9/11;
| Quote: | | " Wherley told the officer before racing out of the building and running several hundred yards to squadron headquarters. There, officers wanted to head to the skies right away, but Wherley was measured. "We have to get some instructions," Wherley told squadron officers. "We can't just fly off half-cocked." |
| Quote: | | Debbie Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board said the emergency brake button, known as the "mushroom," was depressed, and the steel rails showed evidence that the brakes were engaged. Investigators also said the striking train was in automatic mode, which means onboard computers should have controlled its speed and stopped it before it got too close to the stationary train |
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/30/AR2009 063002664.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/23/AR2009 062300653.html?hpid=topnews
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Sorry. Either missed it or forgot that I read it; senility setting in.
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