Should blame be allocated to the engineer? It was his job to keep the train at a safe speed. Right? Was there a back up engineer? How much blame goes to the back up engineer?
Or should the blame be placed on the management? The management knows that human engineers have issues - heart attack, texting, stroke, two jobs, Germanwing syndrome - issues which will result in accidents that kill passengers.
Long sections of the Northeast Amtak corridor already have Positive Speed Control as reported by the NYTimes here [1]. The safety technology is available and has been for decades.
In my opinion, the management killed the passengers....
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[1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/05/13/us/investigating-the-philadelphia-amtrak-train-crash.html
[2] http://realneo.us/system/files/Amtrak_derailment_near_Philly___NYTimes_image.JPG