still more to the story

As it often happens in accidents where there a lot of safeguards, it takes many things to simultaneously happen in order to cause the accident.

 

In the case of the monorail, there's an indication that the person in the roundhouse who is responsible for the switch thought he activated the switch, and then radioed that he activated the switch.  Only, he didn't actually throw the switch.  That prompted the supervisor who was off site (on what might have been a legit dinner break) to radio the monorail to back up.

 

Now had someoneone been in the control station, or had the roundhouse person noticed, or even if the person with the kill switch was paying attention, this might not have happened.

 

The final report is due out by the NTSB in a week or so.

 

And...No surprise, the mother of the pilot who died is suing Disney.