***@aol.com wrote:
: It'll be interesting to find out what is determined that the cause was.
: I also wonder if they will attempt to repair and reopen the ride, try to
: sell it, or if the ride will be scrapped.
Eventually the investigation will be closed, and the ride will end up in
South America, that seems to be the usual fate for these things.
That is, if the investigators ever actually find anything. Based solely on
what I am reading in these reports, the credibility of the investigators
has started very close to zero and is dropping fast. Have these engineers
ever seen a roller coaster before? Do they have any idea at all how the
thing works? The conclusion is idiotic, and from the description in the
most recent story it sounds like the idea of a "gravity driven device" is a
foreign concept.
Not sure if the word made it over here, but the official word from the
preliminary investigation was that the ride was running too fast because of
some operator error. I'm not exactly convinced.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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