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. 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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