Crew Alerted to Problem Just Before Ohio Derailment, Investigators Say

This statement by the NTSB just a few days after the event is tripping me out:

  “This was 100 percent preventable,” Jennifer L. Homendy, the board’s chairwoman, said at a news conference in Washington. “We call things accidents; there is no accident. Every single event that we investigate is preventable.”

what? who? how? what? where? why? who are you?

are you the NTSB?

i thought they took, like, _years_ to say anything, even preliminarily, about anything - but now they're out there talking like a georgia grand jury foreperson. what's going on?

i thought it was trippy, too, that the NTSB spokesperson used almost the exact title of this book I just checked out, and happens to be big-ish in the urban planning/transportation community:

https://www.amazon.com/There-Are-No-Accidents-Disaster_Who/d...

i'm guessing this announcement, the follow-up visit by DOT, was because Trump actually visited the disaster area.

maybe that's all there really is to it -- another disaster, one political side getting outplayed by the other side, so trying to make up for it as best as possible -- but the NTSB, making a general statement like _that_ -- it seems like it would be devastating for industry generally (meaning, the people who own the industries -- i.e. investors).

i dunno - hundreds or thousands of people die, and we have to wait years for a statement, but Trump visits and the machinery of government kicks into high gear.

what did i miss?

i guess, fortunately for the Democrats, most of their labor and related toxic deaths are outsourced to other countries.