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Head of Moscow's Metro Fired After Recent Accident

Posted by heypaul on Tue Jul 22 06:47:37 2014

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Moscow's mayor fired the head of the Metro following the recent fatal accident.

Metro Head's Head Rolls

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Re: Head of Moscow's Metro Fired After Recent Accident

Posted by Broadway Lion on Tue Jul 22 07:44:00 2014, in response to Head of Moscow's Metro Fired After Recent Accident, posted by heypaul on Tue Jul 22 06:47:37 2014.

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Gee, only a few years ago, he would have lost is head over this.

No, Wait...

"Besedin was appointed in 2011 by Sobyanin on a five-year contract. His predecessor had voluntarily stepped under pressure over alleged corruption and died soon afterwards."

Looks like they still do that over there.

Hello Socialism!

ROAR

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Re: Head of Moscow's Metro Fired After Recent Accident

Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Tue Jul 22 10:05:06 2014, in response to Head of Moscow's Metro Fired After Recent Accident, posted by heypaul on Tue Jul 22 06:47:37 2014.

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Dumb kopf.....slap, slap.

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Re: Head of Moscow's Metro Fired After Recent Accident

Posted by Mark S. Feinman on Tue Jul 22 13:25:21 2014, in response to Head of Moscow's Metro Fired After Recent Accident, posted by heypaul on Tue Jul 22 06:47:37 2014.

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He will be succeeded by Dmitry Pegov, who started out as an assistant train driver ...

What is an assistant train driver? Is it what we call conductors or does it really take more than one person to operate a Russian Metro train?

--Mark

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Re: Head of Moscow's Metro Fired After Recent Accident

Posted by merrick1 on Tue Jul 22 18:15:31 2014, in response to Re: Head of Moscow's Metro Fired After Recent Accident, posted by Mark S. Feinman on Tue Jul 22 13:25:21 2014.

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I think at one time the Moscow Metro did not have automatic train stops and relied on a second person in the cab for safety.

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How Many Drivers in Moscow Metro??? Re: Head of Moscow's Metro Fired After Recent Accident

Posted by heypaul on Tue Jul 22 19:47:55 2014, in response to Re: Head of Moscow's Metro Fired After Recent Accident, posted by merrick1 on Tue Jul 22 18:15:31 2014.

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Many of the news reports said that the train driver was killed but his assistant survived.

So how many crew on a Moscow Metro train?

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Re: Head of Moscow's Metro Fired After Recent Accident

Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Jul 22 19:55:36 2014, in response to Head of Moscow's Metro Fired After Recent Accident, posted by heypaul on Tue Jul 22 06:47:37 2014.

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I hope he wasn't fired at a civilian passenger plane.

Too soon?

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