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I think it is likely the visual lines staff are supposed to look for are a little bit extra than the sensor. Because, going back to my original point pages ago - it shouldn't be possible for platform staff to **** up. Platform staff - like all humans - will make mistakes. And it shouldn't be...

Because quite frankly, no other option is feasible. Nothing is ever absolutee, but if a restraint was open when it should not have been possible on a type of ride restraint with a proven flawless safety record, we just have to assume it's SFOGs fault at a local level. Nothing else adds up...

That former employee was doing so well until he stops talking about park procedure and moves onto mish mash of old wives tales and enthusiast knowledge gap filling. Anyone who's worked at a park has heard similar sounding Chinese whispers. Pin slipping is definitely a thing that definitely...

Sorry for missing the sources, caught up now I think. God. I think this might truly be the most shocking roller coaster accident of all time. No one - from any background - can seem to come up with a plausible explanation. Usually, we have some idea how something could have happened, even if...

Can we get some soruces on those other points because woah woah woah. Also for Nicky's points above. I've seen a lot parroted - like that he lunged for his phone - but never the source.

They had seatbelts BEFORE the incidents? I did not realise! I thought that was a post accident thing. Was it seatbelt under restraint rather than seatbelt holding restraint? I can't find a decent report on Stanley Mordarskey - the man with cerebral palsy who came out of SFNE's Ride of Steel...

Sorry I've forgotten how to multi quote I disagree - like I said in my post, a seatbelt literally can reduce the risk of you being stuck by a lose article. Their primary safety function is slowing down safety checks. They encourage staff to spend more time with each guest and make them more...

I don't think acknowledging humans human is blaming them. Humans humaning is why we have procedures to mitigate. Just for a really blunt straightforward example... If it turns out a staff member straight up didn't check his restraint, I wouldn't blame them for the accident. Because it shouldn't...

Does anyone have a photo of a b&m hyper or giga clamshell on the 3rd click, for reference? The Ryan the ride mechanic video is great, but it's very much from the perspective of engineering and not operations. Ride mechanics - in my experience anyway - rarely know **** all about the ins and outs...

I just. I just don't know how I feel. I think a lot of us feel the same, right? Seems it from skim reading. Part of me is just so impressed to see something SO DIFFERENT when it comes to track paintjobs that I can't be angry. And part of me is like, yeah it's tacky, but that's kinda the 90s...

I mean, we've seen "layout changes" to other coasters which have caused damage to themselves. Lots of times. So it wouldn't surprise me, at all. They'll do something to it. Whether that's just more or different supports or finding a way to cause less force on that turn, idk. A lot of it probably...

It's the latter. It's known as the baader meinhof phenomenon - it's that cognitive bias to notice something again and again after it being brought to your attention, after paying it no notice until then. There is (almost certainly) no crack on Gatekeeper. It's a shadow, a dirty mark, etc. And...

There's a lot of misinformation going around that the crack was clearly visible at least a week prior. Here's the original post from the photographer https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid023ouELZuczBDexBnuNLRxjZZDCsXSqfBVB8oiYqUJmugsQegBtdGPHeJ8wWakSBeVl&id=1214063528&sfnsn=mo They...

Y'all would be so mad if they closed a ride every time a guest reported something. Nothing would ever be open. Working at a park, I'd always quizz guests a bit to give me more details even if I thought they were reporting something completely benign, then forward it to management or technical...

Is the problem not maybe that the support in question isn't flexing as it should? I don't know anything, but I remember when Silver Bullet had (still has??) those weird braces for a crack on the box section, I read a structural engineer suggest the cause is likley "too many" supports not...

Which is a maintenance failure. I mean, there's no other possible explanation here. Even if all maintenance personnel did what they were technically meant to do, you could argue that continuing to run these trains at all, given their age, is a maintenance failure. The parts should be fully...

I misspoke - it is entirely their fault, but where has this info about the park not doing restraint checks come from and why? It's a weird and unnecessary leap - guests don't leave their bars raised... They just don't. The main argument for checking lapbars is to make sure guests are in them...

Sure, but the likleyhood of them not being closed is slim. Most guests pull restraints down. Possible, unlikley. This just feels like blaming for Gröna for everything. Almost as if he didn't fall... My skepticism gets me far.

I have quite a lot of evidence in that post.

The train didn't come to an immediate stop... Firstly because that's highly unlikley given the majority of the train is in tact - just think about how missing a single wheel assembly would play out in real time? I bet as it came loose the train slowed, it probably only fell off entirely when the...