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The Eschede Train Disaster - ICE 884

On a June morning in 1998, Germany's fastest train is carrying holiday travelers and business commuters north toward Hamburg when a strip of jagged steel tears up through the floor of the first passenger car, inches from a six-year-old boy. A father goes to find someone who can stop the train. The conductor follows the rules. Join Alice and Zach for the story of ICE 884: a fix for a rattling dining car, a bang nobody could explain, and a question of blame that took years to answer, if it ever was. Sources Judgment 23 O 272/01, September 18, 2002 - Berlin Regional Court (Landgericht Berlin) "The railway accident of Eschede – technical background" - Engineering Failure Analysis (2004) "Final Report of the EU-Project Crisis Communication" - German Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Academy for Crisis Management, Emergency Planning and Civil Protection "Derailment at Eschede" - Seconds From Disaster, National Geographic "A Train Crash at 120 Miles Per Hour: The Eschede Disaster" - Fascinating Horror "Germany recalls the Eschede train disaster" - Deutsche Welle "Wie eine lebenslange Strafe" - evangelisch.de / epd "Entgleiste Leben – 25 Jahre nach dem Zugunglück von Eschede" - Abendzeitung München "Bahnchef Grube entschuldigt sich bei Opfern des Zugunglücks von Eschede" - evangelisch.de / epd "Gedenkveranstaltung erinnert an Zugunglück Eschede vor 25 Jahren" - Sonntagsblatt / epd "Gottesdienst zu Eschede: Gott, wo warst du?" - evangelisch.de / epd 25th-anniversary feature on Heinrich Löwen and the Eschede survivors' group - WEB.DE Magazin "ICE-Unglück von Eschede" - wissen.de "Did wheel cause rail disaster?" - CBS News / Associated Press "Finding of damaged track prompts fresh wave of speculation on cause" - The Irish Times "Scores dead in high-speed German train crash" - The Minnesota Daily First-anniversary coverage, "Um 10.58 Uhr läuteten in Eschede die Glocken" - Der Tagesspiegel Deutsche Feuerwehr-Zeitung, issue 5/2008 - German Firefighters Association (Deutscher Feuerwehrverband) Find FINAL BOARDING CALL online: Website: finalboardingcallpodcast.com Email: finalboardingcallpodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @FinalBoardingCallPod Facebook: Final Boarding Call Credits: Final Boarding Call is hosted by Alice Stern and Zach Stemas, researched and written by Alice Stern, produced and edited by Alice Stern and Zach Stemas.

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On a June morning in 1998, Germany's fastest train is carrying holiday travelers and business commuters north toward Hamburg when a strip of jagged steel tears up through the floor of the first passenger car, inches from a six-year-old boy. A father goes to find someone who can stop the train. The conductor follows the rules. Join Alice and Zach for the story of ICE 884: a fix for a rattling dining car, a bang nobody could explain, and a question of blame that took years to answer, if it ever was.

Sources

  • Judgment 23 O 272/01, September 18, 2002 - Berlin Regional Court (Landgericht Berlin)
  • "The railway accident of Eschede – technical background" - Engineering Failure Analysis (2004)
  • "Final Report of the EU-Project Crisis Communication" - German Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Academy for Crisis Management, Emergency Planning and Civil Protection
  • "Derailment at Eschede" - Seconds From Disaster, National Geographic
  • "A Train Crash at 120 Miles Per Hour: The Eschede Disaster" - Fascinating Horror
  • "Germany recalls the Eschede train disaster" - Deutsche Welle
  • "Wie eine lebenslange Strafe" - evangelisch.de / epd
  • "Entgleiste Leben – 25 Jahre nach dem Zugunglück von Eschede" - Abendzeitung München
  • "Bahnchef Grube entschuldigt sich bei Opfern des Zugunglücks von Eschede" - evangelisch.de / epd
  • "Gedenkveranstaltung erinnert an Zugunglück Eschede vor 25 Jahren" - Sonntagsblatt / epd
  • "Gottesdienst zu Eschede: Gott, wo warst du?" - evangelisch.de / epd
  • 25th-anniversary feature on Heinrich Löwen and the Eschede survivors' group - WEB.DE Magazin
  • "ICE-Unglück von Eschede" - wissen.de
  • "Did wheel cause rail disaster?" - CBS News / Associated Press
  • "Finding of damaged track prompts fresh wave of speculation on cause" - The Irish Times
  • "Scores dead in high-speed German train crash" - The Minnesota Daily
  • First-anniversary coverage, "Um 10.58 Uhr läuteten in Eschede die Glocken" - Der Tagesspiegel
  • Deutsche Feuerwehr-Zeitung, issue 5/2008 - German Firefighters Association (Deutscher Feuerwehrverband)

Find FINAL BOARDING CALL online:


Credits: Final Boarding Call is hosted by Alice Stern and Zach Stemas, researched and written by Alice Stern, produced and edited by Alice Stern and Zach Stemas.

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