National Transportation Safety Board Railroad Accident Report: Miami International Airport, Automated People Mover Train Collision with Passenger Terminal Wall in Miami, Florida, on November 28, 2008

摘要

About 4:44 p.m., eastern standard time, on November 28, 2008, a three-car train operating along a fixed guideway on Concourse E at Miami International Airport near Miami, Florida, failed to stop at the passenger platform and struck a wall at the end of the guideway. Although a maintenance technician was monitoring train operations from the lead car of the train when the accident occurred, the train was operating in fully automatic mode without a human operator. The maintenance technician and five passengers on board the train were injured in the accident. One person on the passenger platform also required medical attention. As a result of its investigation of this accident, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) makes safety recommendations to the U.S. Department of Transportation, to the 50 states and the District of Columbia, to Miami-Dade County, and to Johnson Controls, Inc. The NTSB also reiterates a previously issued safety recommendation to the U.S. Department of Transportation.