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Definitely a case of the harness not being locked down. You can see him in the screengrab here before the ride starts, the harness looks like it isn't locked down and none of the staff seem to notice.

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On second thought I think homie might have simply slipped out of the ride, maybe the G forces were enough to squeeze his body through that gap. Look at how much closer the bottom of their harnesses are the other 3 is to the top grooves of the leg slots. White shirt has a very tight gap, probably because he is noticeably skinnier than the others.

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Homefries said:
Definitely a case of the harness not being locked down. You can see him in the screengrab here before the ride starts, the harness looks like it isn't locked down and none of the staff seem to notice.

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His family is going to easily win a lawsuit. You can see his harness isn’t locked down in a secure position and not one employee is going around checking they are secure.
 
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BelUwUga said:
I'm just having a hard time believing a ride that modern in what looks like a developed country wouldn't have interlocks.
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You can hear the staff member when asked by their supervisor, say "the light was on" when they're being questioned, so it must've had interlocks. It's possible that whatever went wrong was able to activate the interlocks without engaging properly.
 
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Lone Dogma said:
You can hear the staff member when asked by their supervisor, say "the light was on" when they're being questioned, so it must've had interlocks. It's possible that whatever went wrong was able to activate the interlocks without engaging properly.
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Looking at the longer video in A&H I'm fairly confident in calling this a design flaw that made operator error fatal. This was a big boy, and most importantly, there is no solid connection between the shoulder harness and the seat. The hinge simply holds it closed. The child was likely too big for the seat, but small enough for the hinge lock to engage. Drop the fatty meatbag fast enough and right through the gap it squeezes.

My call: Insurance is going to want actual, metal interlocks integrated to positively close this gap. If they can afford it they will certainly do it. If they are in dire straits expect them to procure some aircraft seatbelts from Skycraft to bolt between the two. In that case I give it <5 year before a drunk/stoned operator skips a cross-check and kills another one.
 
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Drop tower rides are one that I never wanted to fuck with. After watching Final Destination 3 enough times, theme parks in general just started seeming like more risk than value. Really sucks the parents and everyone around had to watch him go out that way. When I saw the vid circulating on normiebook a lot of people were acting like the kid himself was responsible and had been doing something stupid but this really just seems to be a very tragic perfect storm of variables that resulted in some kid getting killed by gravity.
 
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BelUwUga said:
Looking at the longer video in A&H I'm fairly confident in calling this a design flaw that made operator error fatal.
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I mean, it most likely is. This reminds me that the interlock on the doors on British Rail Mk3 based trains, is only on one door leaf, meaning it's possible to run in service with all your passenger doors half open. However, if that operator had been doing his job instead of chatting to guests...
BelUwUga said:
This was a big boy, and most importantly, there is no solid connection between the shoulder harness and the seat. The hinge simply holds it closed. The child was likely too big for the seat, but small enough for the hinge lock to engage. Drop the fatty meatbag fast enough and right through the gap it squeezes.
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Several rides I've been on with a harness like this, have a nylon strap held together by side release buckles to act as redundancy in case of mechanical andor hydraulic/electrical failure.
BelUwUga said:
My call: Insurance is going to want actual, metal interlocks integrated to positively close this gap. If they can afford it they will certainly do it. If they are in dire straits expect them to procure some aircraft seatbelts from Skycraft to bolt between the two. In that case I give it <5 year before a drunk/stoned operator skips a cross-check and kills another one.
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My call is that they'll mandate metal interlocks and some sort of redundancy measure.
 
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I mean, it most likely is. This reminds me that the interlock on the doors on British Rail Mk3 based trains, is only on one door leaf, meaning it's possible to run in service with all your passenger doors half open. However, if that operator had been doing his job instead of chatting to guests...

Several rides I've been on with a harness like this, have a nylon strap held together by side release buckles to act as redundancy in case of mechanical andor hydraulic/electrical failure.

My call is that they'll mandate metal interlocks and some sort of redundancy measure.
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I think we're describing the same nylon strap. Skycraft is one of the largest aircraft salvors that sell to the general public, right in Orlando. If I were an engineer on a limited budget that needed a solution to minimize downtime, that'd be the ticket. It probably would have made it through initial reviews if it was commissioned with it. Hell they permitted this to operate as it was I assume. Now that it's got a kill count I agree it's likely to have some kind of metal positive interlock order. Unfortunately that goes one of two ways in Florida:
A) They can afford it and eventually life goes on.
B) They cannot afford it and BK. In the meantime the ride sits stagnant and degrades. Eventually some investor offers to get the city out of their tax black hole of a closed attraction. But, they're going to want to go with the cheapest, fasted option. Now it's something that degraded without inspection with whatever nig rig they think they can get away with. Repeat this cycle until a park in the third world or some shiftless carnies offer to buy/haul it away.
 
Homefries said:
Definitely a case of the harness not being locked down. You can see him in the screengrab here before the ride starts, the harness looks like it isn't locked down and none of the staff seem to notice.

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Wow that sound... This only reaffirms why I don't really enjoy these rides anymore as I get older. Thanks for sharing though, good video.
 
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