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Thursday 3 augusT 2017

PA town evacuated after freight train derails, catches fire

Wednesday, igniting fires ture fire was at the garage,
in some rail cars and a ga- but video from the scene
rage and forcing emergen- seems to show more exten-
cy officials to evacuate the sive damage.
whole town. Aerial footage of the de-
No injuries were reported. railment shows a number
At least 32 cars on the CSX of cars stacked nearly per-
freight train derailed about pendicular to the tracks
5 a.m. in Hyndman, about while others landed in a
100 miles (161 kilometers) burning, zig-zag pattern in
southeast of Pittsburgh, a residential area where
said CSX spokesman Rob some structures seemed
Doolittle. crushed and other ablaze.
The train was traveling from Hyndman resident Jim
Chicago to Selkirk, New Shaffer told the (Cumber-
York. land) Times-News he was
At least one car containing awakened by the sound of
liquid petroleum gas, and crashing rail cars.
one containing molten sul- “It woke me up. It was loud-
fur leaked and caught fire, er than a thunderstorm,”
Doolittle said. A residential he said. “I heard the cars
garage struck during the banging into each other.
derailment also caught fire, Then I heard the fire whis-
Emergency officials and CSX personnel gather near the site of a freight train derailment, officials said. tle.”
Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, in Hyndman, Pa. A freight train carrying hazardous materials partly It was not immediately Bedford County 911 coor-
derailed early Wednesday, setting train cars and a garage on fire and prompting emergency known what caused the dinator Harry Corley said
officials to evacuate nearby residents. train to run off the rails, and officials ordered everyone
(Steve Bittner/The Cumberland Times-News via AP)
the fire continued to burn within a 1-mile radius of the
HYNDMAN, Pa. (AP) — of a freight train carrying reened off the tracks in a hours after the derailment. derailment to leave hours
Nearly three dozen cars hazardous materials ca- small Pennsylvania town The only confirmed struc- after the derailment. q

New data shows how close jets came to crashing at SF airport

By DAVID KOENIG Newly released data and ingly low an Air Canada jet avoid crashing into planes International Airport taxi-
AP Airlines Writer photos show how shock- was when it pulled up to waiting on a San Francisco way last month. The Air
Canada jet pilots mistook
the taxiway for the run-
way next to it and dipped
to just 59 feet (18 meters)
above ground before pull-
ing up to attempt another
landing, according to Na-
tional Transportation Safety
Board information released
Wednesday.
That’s barely taller than the
four planes that were on
that taxiway when the inci-
dent occurred late at night
on July 7. Pilots in a United
Airlines plane alerted air
traffic controllers about
the off-course jet, while the
crew of a Philippine Airlines
jet behind it switched on
their plane’s landing lights
in an apparent last-ditch
danger signal to Air Cana-
da. NTSB investigators said
they have not determined
probable cause for the in-
cident that came within a
few feet of becoming one
of the worst disasters in avi-
ation history. Those systems
were not designed to spot
planes that are lined up to
land on a taxiway — a rare
occurrence, especially for
airline pilots. q