The ride’s operations and maintenance manual, which has been posted online by the state consumer services department, indicates the maximum passenger weight should be 130 kilograms (approximately 287 pounds). The opening could have grown to as much as 10 inches with force, according to the report, citing tests. The “harness proximity sensor (for the seat Tyre used) was manually loosened, adjusted and tightened to allow a restraint opening of near 7 inches,” about 4 inches more than the normal opening range for the restraints, according the report. Video evidence at the time of Tyre’s death shows the opening for his seat was more than 6 inches, according to the report. However, the gap in the seat Tyre used was 7.19 inches, and the gap for the other adjusted seat was 6.51 inches, the report reads. The average gap for the unadjusted seats was 3.33 inches.Īccident report in teen's Florida park ride death says seat was locked Tyre exited from the seat “feet first during ride descent,” states the Quest report, citing the video.įor all the seats, Quest’s engineers – who went to the site to investigate in early April – positioned the harnesses to the maximum harness-to-seat gap that still would illuminate each seat’s safety lights. In video circulating on social media that purportedly shows the March 24 incident, roughly five seconds after the ride starts its drop – perhaps two-thirds down the tower – a person falls from one of the seats as the vehicle decelerates. It was described by its operators as the world’s tallest freestanding drop tower. The ride takes riders up and then drops them nearly 400 feet at speeds that reach more than 75 mph, according to the park. Sensor was ‘manually loosened, adjusted and tightened,’ report says
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“Today’s report suggests a full review of the ride’s design, safety, operation, restraint mechanisms and history – which of course we welcome,” Trevor Arnold said. “The mis-adjustment” of the two seats’ sensors allowed safety lights for each seat, and corresponding lights on the ride’s main control panel, to illuminate, “improperly satisfying the ride’s electronic safety mechanisms and allowing the ride to commence even though the ride was unsafe,” the report reads.Īn attorney for the ride’s operator, Orlando Slingshot, responded, saying Monday, “all protocols, procedures and safety measures provided to us by the manufacturer of the ride were followed.” The ride normally will not function unless the seat’s sensors indicate that each seat’s harness – which goes over a rider’s shoulders and down onto the rider’s torso and lap area – is lowered to produce an acceptable gap between the lowest part of the harness and a raised section of the seat’s front edge, the report reads.īut because the sensors for two seats were moved, the ride would operate with larger-than-normal gaps between harnesses and those two seats, the report reads. “The cause of the subject accident was that Tyre Sampson was not properly secured in the seat primarily due to mis-adjustment of the harness proximity sensor,” the report reads. The sensors’ locations were adjusted for two of the ride’s 30 seats, including the seat Tyre used, states the report, which the Florida agency released online Monday. did not say when the sensors were moved – other than it happened after they were initially put in place – or who moved them or why they were moved. The report by engineering firm Quest Engineering & Failure Analysis Inc.
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Manual adjustments had been made at some point to two seats on the FreeFall drop tower ride – including the seat Tyre was in – “presumably, to allow for larger riders, which should not have happened based on the manufacturer’s guidelines,” Thompson said. An investigation is underway, but who regulates these parks?
Josh duLac/CNNĪ boy fell from a free-fall ride in Florida.
A teenager died after falling from a drop tower at Orlando-area's ICON Park.
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