Norfolk Southern wiped a video showing the moments leading up to a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, that sparked a massive environmental disaster, ABC 6 On Your Side reported. The camera inside the train car had 12 hours of recording space, all of which was used except for a 15-minute timespan before and five minutes after the derailment, Jennifer Homendy, National Transportation Safety Board chair, explained to ABC 6. The video, therefore, cannot be used during investigations to determine what the three-person crew was doing at that time. “It’s just as important to see what was going on before that,” Homendy said, according to ABC 6. “The train was going in the 35-40 mph range earlier and then between 40-50. So we don’t even have what was occurring around the first and second wayside (defect) detectors, much less before that, all of which is key to investigations.”
