Florida FreeFall teen death: seat harness still locked after horrifying accident at Orlando park

The seat harness of an Orlando amusement park trip was within the locked place after a 14-year-old teen fell out, plunging to his demise, in keeping with an accident report launched Monday. 

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“FreeFall was coming to [sic] down the tower. When the magnets engaged, the patron got here out of the seat,” wrote a theme park staffer in an accident report after the tragic March 24 demise of rising Missouri center college soccer participant Tyre Sampson. “Harness was nonetheless in a down and locked place when the trip stopped.”

The report lists the names of three workers as witnesses, together with the staffer who was working the trip on the time of the accident.

Disturbing footage reveals the second Sampson slipped out, about midway down the trip’s 430-foot descent, and smacked into the pavement.

ICON Park shuttered the attraction, referred to as the Orlando FreeFall, which hurtles passengers at a pace of 75 mph towards the bottom as they’re tilted at a 30-degree angle. The trip opened late final yr.

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An working guide signifies that Sampson considerably exceeded the utmost allowable weight of 286 kilos. The teenager was 6-foot-5 and weighed 350 kilos. He had been turned away from different rides resulting from his dimension, his cousin instructed information shops.

Authorities Monday additionally launched a number of 911 calls that have been made after Sampson hit the bottom. One particular person stated that the boy’s seatbelt had not been secured correctly. 

Amusement park guests have been in shock after seeing a teenage boy die after falling off of the Orlando FreeFall trip.
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One other caller stated the trip stopped abruptly and that is when Sampson flew out. “The man fell proper out of the seat, and bam! Went straight by the chair and simply flopped,” the particular person states on the recorded name. “It was the largest smack I’ve ever heard in my life.”

The accident report was filed with the Florida Division of Agriculture and Shopper Companies, which regulates amusement rides in any respect however the largest theme parks within the state. The Orange County Sheriff’s Workplace is investigating the stunning accident that occurred on the theme park positioned about seven miles from Disney World. 

A spokesman for the Slingshot Group, the corporate that owns the Orlando FreeFall, did not instantly return a request for remark.

Sampson was a part of a soccer membership that was in Orlando for a week-long coaching session, the St. Louis Publish Dispatch reported.

His father, Yarnell Sampson, stated his son knew that one thing was amiss. Because the trip ascended, he instructed his good friend seated subsequent to him that if he did not make it down, “Please inform my mother and pop I really like them.”