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    Commuter train derails at Chicago airport

    Yahoo News•March 24, 2014
    • 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)
    • National Transportation Safety Board Railroad Accident Investigator Tim DePaepe leaves a press briefing about a Chicago Transit Authority subway train that derailed at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, March 24, 2014. Thirty-two people were injured after the CTA train derailed and hit a platform at O'Hare International Airport early on Monday, with its front car landing on an escalator and stairs, a city fire official said. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT)
    • A Chicago Transit Authority worker directs commuters to a shuttle bus after a subway train derailed at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, March 24, 2014. Thirty-two people were injured after the train derailed and hit a platform early on Monday, with its front car landing on an escalator and stairs, a city fire official said. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT)
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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)

    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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