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The AirTrain that derailed during a test run at Kennedy Airport last month was going at least 30 mph too fast at the time of the accident, National Transportation Safety Board findings show.
The slight curve where the crash occurred was rated for a maximum allowable speed of 25 mph, NTSB spokeswoman Lauren Peduzzi said this week. Investigators had earlier determined the train was traveling 55 to 58 mph when it jumped the tracks, killing operator Kelvin DeBourgh Jr., the lone person onboard.
It remains unclear, however, whether test conditions called for the train to be traveling that fast on the curve, or if perhaps that information was somehow misunderstood...