Spanish High-Speed Train Derailment: Chaos Before Deadly Crash

0:00On April 28, new images from inside a Spanish high-speed train revealed the chaos right before a deadly derailment that claimed 46 lives on. January 18, the Iriotrain heading from Malaga to Madrid with around 300 passengers hit a fractured rail near Atomuz in Cordoba Province sending it. Rear cars off the tracks at about 130 miles per hour. Meanwhile, an oncoming Alvia train from Madrid to Huelva, packed with nearly 200 people, slammed on emergency brakes but still collided, knocking its front cars down a 13-foot slope. Passengers described it like an earthquake, with some getting thrown through windows and found yards away, while others smashed out using emergency. Hammers to escape the twisted wreckage. Investigators from the civil guard now point to that rail break as the sole cause, ruling out any issues with the trains themselves, though they. Stress these findings are provisional, pending more checks on black boxes and footage. Spain's rail safety team keeps digging, adjusting timelines down to seconds, like that corrected 7.43pm crash moment to nail the full.

1:10Story and prevent the next close call.