When the official was asked by a reporter to clarify that no federal or state agency oversees what manufacturers put in their ride manuals, she said, 'That's correct.'
The head of the Florida agency charged with investigating whether there were security failures when alast week while on a ride at an Orlando amusement park acknowledged Friday there is no direct oversight of what thrill-ride manufacturers put in their manuals dictating safety measures.
"There is no oversight board that says that. However, per our statutes, every single ride needs to have an affidavit from an engineer, engineering firms that sign the affidavit on … the protocols of every aspect of the ride, making sure that it is safe. So we have to make sure that when we authorize a ride to open, that we have received that documentation both in the manufacturers and from an expert engineer who has done all the necessary testing … and that's what we have to rely on.
Orange County Sheriff John W. Mina said during a news conference last week that the incident appeared to be accidental."It appears to be a terrible tragedy," the sheriff said. "Our prayers and thoughts are with the family. We can't imagine what they're going through," he said. "We have suspended the operations of the FreeFall ride and the Slingshot ride at Icon Park," Ritchie Armstrong, the CEO of the Slingshot Group, said in a statement.
"He was a really good kid. Really respectable. It was always, 'No sir. Yes sir.' ... He had a bright future ahead. He was very intelligent."
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