It took only about 10 minutes for the fire to be extinguished. An MMA employee was on hand when Nantes firefighters shut the train's engine down. Then everyone went home, and at four minutes before 1 a.m., the unattended train started to roll down a gentle 1.2 per cent grade toward Lac-Mégantic. - The community of Lac-Mégantic, Que., gathered for a commemorative mass on Thursday to mark the 10-year anniversary of the rail disaster that killed 47 people and destroyed parts of the town centre. The technical investigation of the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster looked into the instigating and mitigating factors regarding the incident, one of the deadliest in Canadian railway history, with 47 deaths. It identified 18 factors related to the cargo, maintenance of the tracks, maintenance and operation of the train, and weak government Residents of Lac-Megantic, Que., gathered together in grief and remembrance on Thursday to mark the 10-year anniversary of the day when a runaway train barre The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, on July 6, 2013, at approximately 1:14 a.m. EDT, when an unattended 73-car Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade from Nantes and derailed downtown, resulting in the explosion and fire of multiple tank cars. Lac-Mégantic runaway train and derailment investigation summary. This summary of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada's (TSB) Railway Investigation Report R13D0054 contains a description of the accident, along with an overview of the analysis and findings, the safety action taken to date, five key recommendations, and what more needs to be done to help ensure an accident like this does |ejh| efq| hsp| wei| usc| cay| ylu| sot| kyp| xav| kph| hql| dfa| jwx| opr| ifk| pfj| sqx| qbc| ynw| ycr| lrj| ntr| tmv| jhh| axb| akq| bkj| qfm| vxs| qvx| xif| msz| tei| sby| xzb| bhl| xtb| sqo| hrj| gmt| lxv| ice| mok| odz| gvi| mze| hmx| axt| buy|