Train Crash

[sumner7]

What did anyone think of the train crash and explosion that happened yesterday in Iran?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3502075.stm

The death toll is continuing to rise... :-(

[Speelgoedmannetje]

It is still unclear what caused the heavily-laden freight train to derail.

Lemme guess: lack of safety precautions, maintenance and -edit- the train itself overloaded. In other words: greed, with many victims. :-x

[bloodline]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

It is still unclear what caused the heavily-laden freight train to derail.

Lemme guess: lack of safety precautions, maintenance and far too many people on the train.

In other words: greed, with many victims. :-x

No, that would be the British Rail system :-D

The Iranian crash was probably caused by an earth quake :-(

[whabang]

It's not clever to transport fuel, sulphuric acid, and explosives on the same train... :-(

[Speelgoedmannetje]

bloodline wrote:

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

It is still unclear what caused the heavily-laden freight train to derail.

Lemme guess: lack of safety precautions, maintenance and far too many people on the train.

In other words: greed, with many victims. :-x

No, that would be the British Rail system :-D

The Iranian crash was probably caused by an earth quake :-(

It'd be a very local earthquake.

[KennyR]

If I was planning to make a bomb, I'd make it out of ammonium phosphate fertiliser (an excellent oxidant), petrol (a fuel), and sulphur (a high temperature accelerant).

How stupid is that to put all this stuff on the same train?? Tons and tons of it!

They say the blast shattered windows 10km away. No wonder.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

@KennyR
You mean, they could have done it on purpose? (because of the people there not agreeing with the government or so?)

[blobrana]

Did some one mention in another thread, about the CIA  selling faulty chips to the russians , that lead to the biggest oil pipeline disaster?

But i reckon it was stupidity, bad luck , and greed...
This is way too big an evil thing for some agency to do...(i hope).

But it`s like this unfortunate `accident` i remember hearing about:
"The powerful blast has shattered most of the windows within an 80-kilometre radius. The aftershock of the explosion is felt as far away as Sydney, Cape Breton; a distance of about 435 kilometres. An estimated 25,000 people from a population of less than 50,000 suddenly find themselves homeless"
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-70-971-5494/disasters_tragedies/halifax_explosion/clip4

Due to stupidity and bad luck...

(er, not that i`m saying this wasn`t big or devastating..450 dead!..But rather thankfully it didn`t happen in the middle of a  major city...)

[sumner7]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

bloodline wrote:

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

It is still unclear what caused the heavily-laden freight train to derail.

Lemme guess: lack of safety precautions, maintenance and far too many people on the train.

In other words: greed, with many victims. :-x

No, that would be the British Rail system :-D

The Iranian crash was probably caused by an earth quake :-(

It'd be a very local earthquake.

On the news the other night, they said they thought it was an earthquake that caused this. People heard explosions 50 miles from the crash.

BTW, I like the colours in your avatar, Speelgoedmannetje.