The ride's manufacturer says no one weighing more than 286 pounds should be allowed on. Tyre Sampson weighed over 300.
Thursday night may have been too heavy for the ride, a 2021 manual from the manufacturer appears to indicate.Orlando Free Fall rideSampson was a middle school football player in the St. Louis area who dreamed of playing pro ball. His youth football coach, AJ Jones,An operations and maintenance manual seen by CBS News and prepared by the ride's manufacturer, Funtime Handels GmbH, of Dölsach, Austria, says the maximum weight for passengers should be 130 kilograms, or 286 pounds.
Sampson's seat was still locked, according to CNN, which cited an accident report that was based on ride employee witnesses. CBS News has not independently confirmed the CNN report., is just 11 feet shorter than Orlando's tallest building, the SunTrust building. It takes patrons up to that height, tilts the seats so they face the ground for a moment or two, and then plummets toward the ground at speeds of 75 mph or more.
"We hope the subsequent findings will be able to inform us all as to how this tragedy occurred and will precipitate any changes necessary to better protect patrons of amusement rides in Florida," FDACS Commissioner Nikki Fried said in a statement. "This young man, he was athletic and he was big. He had no way of knowing," said Bob Hilliard, a Texas attorney who represents Tyre's mother, Nekia Dodd, in an interview Saturday."This is going to be an issue of a lack of supervision and lack of training. A straight-up negligence case."
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