Mysterious Sue
Strata Poster
I thought it was worth summarising again what we know:
- they were having technical problems so ran at least one test train, which valleyed.
- then they ran a train full of people which reportedly stopped at the top of lift hill (as it should do under normal safety procedures) for 10 to 15 minutes. It did not stop on the inversion, this is impossible and only reported by the Daily Fail
...and what we are debating:
- Something triggers the second train to start again and allow two trains into the same area and crash.
The way I see it, there are 3 possible reasons (this is all from my head and I'm terribly uninformed, but I'm just trying to make sense of it):
A. The ride-ops 'allowed this' by sending a train when they weren't meant to/weren't told of the valleyed train by the system. I don't imagine this is possible but I don't know enough to rule it out.
B. Engineers reset the system and 'cleared the ride of errors' so that the valleyed train 'disappeared' and the second train was free to start again. For a 10 to 15 minute breakdown, surely engineers would start to be on the scene?
C. The ride started again of its own accord with no human input. If this is the case then Gerstlauer will be at fault and we may see other rides being shut down to have their systems checked.
- they were having technical problems so ran at least one test train, which valleyed.
- then they ran a train full of people which reportedly stopped at the top of lift hill (as it should do under normal safety procedures) for 10 to 15 minutes. It did not stop on the inversion, this is impossible and only reported by the Daily Fail
...and what we are debating:
- Something triggers the second train to start again and allow two trains into the same area and crash.
The way I see it, there are 3 possible reasons (this is all from my head and I'm terribly uninformed, but I'm just trying to make sense of it):
A. The ride-ops 'allowed this' by sending a train when they weren't meant to/weren't told of the valleyed train by the system. I don't imagine this is possible but I don't know enough to rule it out.
B. Engineers reset the system and 'cleared the ride of errors' so that the valleyed train 'disappeared' and the second train was free to start again. For a 10 to 15 minute breakdown, surely engineers would start to be on the scene?
C. The ride started again of its own accord with no human input. If this is the case then Gerstlauer will be at fault and we may see other rides being shut down to have their systems checked.