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A communication breakdown and poor training led to the death of an AirTrain driver at Kennedy Airport in September, the Port Authority has concluded.
With added oversight from a new safety board, testing on the AirTrain system could resume as early as today, and, after months of costly delays, passengers could board trains by the end of the year, the agency said yesterday.
"Frankly, we believe that the operator didn't have proper training," Anthony Cracchiolo, the Port Authority's director of priority capital programs, said in a conference call with reporters yesterday morning. "We have to take this testing forward and make sure it's done very carefully, and make sure it's done very safely."
Kelvin DeBourgh Jr., 23, an employee of Bombardier, a lead contractor on the $1.9-billion AirTrain project,...