Florida’s Icon Park: What to know

Florida officers are investigating the loss of life of a 14-year-old boy who fell from an attraction at an Orlando amusement park.

The boy, recognized as Tyree Sampson, fell 400 ft from the Orlando FreeFall journey at Icon Park late Thursday evening.

He was taken to a hospital, the place he died.

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“We won’t think about the ache and anguish that his household should be going via,” Orange County Sheriff John Mina mentioned, noting that Sampson had been visiting a household in Central Florida from his dwelling in Missouri.

The 430-foot-tall Free Fall journey – the world’s tallest free-standing drop tower, in response to the attraction – and the adjoining Orlando Slingshot have been closed indefinitely. 

Each rides opened in December 2020. 

The Florida Division of Agriculture and Client Companies advised the Orlando Sentinel that it’s investigating the accident 

Icon Park is situated on Worldwide Drive and has a number of points of interest, together with the “crown jewel” 400-foot-tall Ferris wheel that opened in 2015. 

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Different points of interest embody Madame Tussauds Orlando, the Pearl Categorical Prepare, SEA LIFE Orlando Aquarium and StarFlyer, which the park says stands at 450 ft and is the “world’s tallest stand-alone swinging journey.” 

That journey strikes up and down, rotating friends at speeds of as much as 45 mph. 

In September 2020, 21-year-old employee Jacob Kaminsky died after falling about 50 or 60 ft from the StarFlyer journey, in response to the Orlando Sentinel. 

The publication famous that Slingshot Group has been working amusement rides in Florida since 2000.

Icon Park is managed by IDL Father or mother LLC, in response to the park web site. 

The Related Press contributed to this report.