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flag Delta employee Charles Peck died in the 2008 Chatsworth train crash caused by a engineer's failure to stop at a red signal.

flag Charles E. Peck, a 49-year-old Delta Air Lines employee and father of three, died instantly in the September 12, 2008, Chatsworth train crash, which killed 25 and injured 135. flag Traveling for a job interview and to reunite with his fiancée, Andrea Katz, Peck’s phone made 35 calls over 11 hours after his death, connecting to static or voicemail and misleading family into believing he might still be alive. flag Search teams used the phone’s signal to locate his body in the wreckage, though the device was never recovered. flag The crash was caused by a Metrolink engineer failing to stop at a red signal, entering a track occupied by a freight train.

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