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    Tim DePaepe, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, accompanied by Chicago Transit Authority President Forrest Claypool, right, speaks during a news conference Monday, March 24, 2014, at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. The NTSB is leading an investigation into why an eight-car Chicago public-transit train jumped the tracks, skidded across a platform and scaled an escalator that leads to one of the nation's busiest airports early Monday, injuring 32 people. (AP Photo/Carla K. Johnson)

    Commuter train derails at Chicago airport

    An operator of a Chicago public-transit train that jumped the tracks and scaled an escalator at one of nation's busiest airports Monday may have dozed off, a union official said.

    The woman said she had worked extensive overtime recently and was "extremely tired" at the time of the accident, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 308 President Robert Kelly told a news conference.

    The derailment happened just before 3 a.m. Monday at the end of the Chicago Transit Authority's Blue Line at O'Hare International Airport. The timing of the accident helped avoid an enormous disaster, as the underground Blue Line station is usually packed with travelers. More than 30 people were hurt, but none had life-threatening injuries. (AP)


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