The FBI Rules Out Bullets in Amtrak Windshield Fracture
The FBI says there’s no evidence anyone shot at the Amtrak train that derailed last week, pointing out that it’s still unclear if the train’s fractured windshield even contributed to the crash.
The FBI found no evidence of damage to #Amtrak 188 windshield that could have been caused by a firearm.
May 18, 2015
On Friday the agency announced it would begin investigating the possibility that a projectile hit the windshield of the train shortly before the crash, citing a grapefruit-sized fracture that “did not even penetrate the entire windshield.”
“You know when a pebble hits a windshield and it goes through a layer and the window fractures and it kind of looks like a spider web? That’s sort of what it looks like,” an anonymous “law enforcement official” tells the New York Times. “It’s a small hole, but the glass around it is broken.”
According to the Times, investigators say the hole could also have been made during the derailment, but the NTSB is still investigating and “has not ruled out the possibility that another object may have struck the windshield.”
