 On 17 November 2004, just over a day after the derailment, QR's chief executive officer, Bob Scheuber, along with the Queensland Police Commissioner, Robert Atkinson, released the data held in the train event recorder that showed that the train was travelling at when it derailed, at a point with a limit of .Scheuber said that it was not known if speed was the only cause of the derailment, but that "it would be one of the contributing factors".The release of this information angered the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Employees, which covers train crews including drivers, which threatened a 24-hour strike on Friday, pending a telephone hook-up with members on Thursday night.