Hoboken crash timeline: What happened when

Here's a timeline of events leading up to and in the aftermath of the NJ Transit accident at the Hoboken train station during the morning rush Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016:

7:23 a.m.

Pascack Valley Line train 1614 departs the Spring Valley station in Rockland County, headed south to Hoboken, its final stop. The train would have made stops at Nanuet and Pearl River, and then in New Jersey at Montvale, Park Ridge, Woodcliff Lake, Hillsdale, Westwood, Emerson, Oradell, River Edge, New Bridge Landing, Anderson Street, Essex Street, Teterboro, Wood-Ridge and Secaucus. Hoboken is a hub for commuters switching from the NJ Transit system to the PATH system to head into Manhattan.

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8:45 a.m. 

The train, carrying about 250 passengers and crew members by this time, goes through the bumper stop at the end of a track at Terminal 5. It travels about 40 feet after going airborne and hits the wall of a waiting room, a machinist says, coming to a halt in a covered area between the station’s indoor waiting area and the platform. A metal structure covering the area collapses.

9:02 a.m.

@Chris_Lantero tweets this photo from the crash scene:

9:45 a.m. 

An hour after the crash some passengers are still trapped inside the train, Steve Capus, a producer for CBS News who lives close to the station, tells CBS News from the scene.

10:56 a.m.

A New Jersey lawmaker confirms to The Associated Press that one person is dead and two are critically injured. Earlier reports are incorrect.

11:55 a.m. 

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says no one is believed to be trapped on the train.

2 p.m.

Christie, speaking at a press conference with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, says the engineer is in critical condition. He says one woman, who was standing on the platform, is dead.

Afternoon

Both the Federal Railroad Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are on scene to investigate the accident. The NTSB often takes the lead investigating railroad crashes. Structural engineers on scene assessing the damage include those from Port Authority of NY/NJ.

5:30 p.m.

Bella Dinh-Zarr, vice chairwoman of the NTSB, holds a press conference in Hoboken to say:

• Investigators are working to get the train's data recorder and footage from two outward-facing video recorders.
• They won't get to the train cars until the canopy of the more than 100-year-old station is resting on top of a train car, is considered stable. 
• The engineer has been released from the hospital.
• The engineer was controlling the locomotive from a control cab in the train's front passenger car.

We will be updating this timeline as we get more information about how the crash unfolded.