On 12 May 1989, a 69-car freight train goes out of control while descending from California’s Cajon Pass. It derails in a residential neighbourhood of San Bernardino after reaching speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour (160 km/h). Two residents and two train crew members are killed in the initial crash. More than a week later, an underground gasoline pipeline, damaged by earth-moving equipment during the post-crash clean-up, ruptures and sparks a fire that kills another two people.
Subscribe to WONDER to watch more documentaries: https://www.youtube.com/WonderDocs
Mayday: Experts analyze various plane crashes with an aim to figure out how these disasters occurred. They also shed light on how such accidents shaped the aviation industry and improved safety standards.
Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewonderchannel/
Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheWonderChannel
WONDER is packed with binge-worthy reality documentaries for hours of entertainment. Check out our hub of diverse and empowering stories which explore the extreme side of life!
Join our Wonderers Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2227476344246882
Content licensed from Cineflix to Little Dot Studios.
Any queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com
#wonder #documentary #mayday
source
So this entire episode just continues to cement the true motto of the United States: "Money, over lives"
The NTSB lost all their credibility when they lied about TWA 800. Total lying fraudsters.
good luck to stop sign..snapped
We use to play on the trains when we lived next to the siding on E Street in Victorville. My dad was was so mad at us asking what we did to the train!!
The important croissant previously reflect because population coincidently bubble along a faithful pair. encouraging, uneven cappelletti
This disaster, like all other rail accidents, occurred because of human stupidity, plain and simple.
As far as I'm concerned, this disaster would never have happened if the rail authorities in the States had learned from the mistakes or stupidity of other railways in the past. Case in point: the 1889 wreck at Armagh, Ireland. If American railways had, at ANY point in time in the 100 years following Armagh, taken the direction that the British railways took following that incident (making their safety devices and systems failsafe by, for example, reversing the way the brakes worked), there wouldn't have been half as many runaway trains in the US and far fewer lives would have been lost.
9:14 literly all downhill from there
40:36 where did he think he was? Saluda? That was never going to work.
its in the USA, yet the announcer keeps using METRIC to explain speeds. ANNOYING! we dont use metric here, idiots.
Houses were insinurated….
Thats ok Im gud bruh. I said Im gud bruh cant you heer me? Naw its ok cuz I got sum peenuts 2 of em
I'm amazed these people can get one train from point a to point b. Everything about this operation was so sloppy and arrogant it's a miracle any train made this trip without a wreck.
No way to test all systems before starting a trip???
Even a truck hauling wood chips is required to verify that their braking system work before starting their days work and to document it's been verified.
I know this was a long time ago but I'm thinking this sort or culture of sloppy work doesn't change in an industry this big.
Wish Mayday Still Did Trains
Spare a moment for the men killed in this disaster, and so many other preventable rail disasters, largely at the hands of greedy and incompetent management. I'm glad the engineer survived, otherwise those families would all be burdened by the railway's official story, which is always: "we have investigated ourselves and found no fault, it was clearly the train crew!" Every time.
amazing documentary! thank you for sharing. I remember this on the news when I was a kid!
I saw this on TV 📺 I forget what channel though
This has like 1.1k dislike how dare you dislike this video deserve more more likes
Why is he speaking brittish
Super bad acting.
Back when a train wreck in California was an actual train instead of the entire state.
It’s amazing that more people didn’t die. Absolutely amazing
San Bernardino is certainly not a quiet little town, at least not anymore.
I was only 4 years old at the time of this incident. The kids that were killed would be in their 30s by now. Maybe early 40s. I certainly don’t remember this tragedy but my mom does. We live in the county of San Bernardino, about 20-25 minutes away from the city.
What cajones they have. If there was anymore cajons then it’d take too mane cajones to get by
And then two more runaways would happen on El Cajon pass in 1994 and 1996.
Maybe I'm overreacting but after that incident with the derailed train I would have done my best to move elsewhere for good. 😳
15:33 pulls emergency brakes like a rocket