NTSB to hold news briefing on Amtrak train crash that killed 4, injured 150 in Missouri

National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy will hold a news briefing at 4 p.m. Tuesday near the site of the Amtrak train crash that killed four and injured 150 people in Missouri, the agency announced.

Homendy’s briefing will take place at Porche Prairie Avenue in Mendon, Missouri. It comes as a 14-member team from the NTSB arrived Tuesday morning to investigate the crash that occurred when the train struck a dump truck Monday at an uncontrolled crossing about 100 miles northeast of Kansas City.

The crash was first reported at about 12:43 p.m. Monday, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

The Amtrak train was traveling eastbound from Los Angeles to Chicago and carried approximately 275 passengers and 12 crew members on board. Two passengers aboard the train were killed as rail cars tumbled off the tracks, landing on their side. A person in the dump truck also was killed.

A third passenger later died at University Hospital in Columbia.

On Tuesday, the patrol said 150 people were transported to area hospitals with various injuries.

Authorities have not publicly identified the four victims who died as of noon Tuesday.