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The Day the Sky Over West Virginia Exploded Thirteen Times
The Day the Sky Over West Virginia Exploded Thirteen Times
The sky above West Virginia burned for four days with thirteen separate fireballs after a train derailed on February 16, 2015 - and the rail had been flagged by instruments twice, sixty-one and thirty-five days earlier, yet no hand inspection was done. How did two missed ultrasonic warnings and one inspector’s judgment lead to a town evacuated into a February storm and a house consumed by the last blast?
In this episode, you’ll hear the sequence of events that led from a flagged rail to a catastrophic derailment, the characteristics…
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