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Norfolk Southern's decision to burn off chemicals from derailed train cars in East Palestine, Ohio, last year was based on flawed and incomplete information, National Transportation Safety Board officials said Wednesday.
The NTSB said Ohio officials were told they had just minutes to decide whether to vent and burn off the vinyl chloride carried in the train cars at the time of the wreck.
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