Death on Perilous Plunge...

I'm hoping I heard the guy on the radio wrong, but he (on an LA station) said that a person died after riding the plunge at Knotts yesterday.  What's up with that????  If I did hear him correctly, does anyone have info?

*** This post was edited by Buzz Head on 9/22/2001. ***

When did the ride even reopen?

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How did it happen...and yes PP was reopened?

why was it closed in the first place?

It was closed because the chain/cable broke. I don't understand, unless a heart/brain condition, how you can die on PP.

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Tim

   I asked the Hammerhead ride op last month why it was closed and she said they were re-painting the bottom. I don't know if that's correct or not but that's what she told me.

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MFRULES said:
I don't understand, unless a heart/brain condition, how you can die on PP.

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Fall Out..

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how could you fall out, those restraits are the same as the ones on the Intamin Hyper coasters.
unless you leave it open, but a ride op would have checked it .

Yeah PP is a very very safe ride. You are held in pretty tight because the drop is so slanted. This better not be true. If so they might have to change the name to Knott' Death Farm.
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You could always check the news websites.

Believe it or not, this is acutally a true story, so now we have 2 deaths in one park, in one month, how sad

Look at this brief report.
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USSOCCER
http://tpr.homestead.com

Here's the full story...

http://www.nbc4la.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=FutureTense/Apps/Xcelerate/View&c=NBCArticle&cid=NBC6MD45JRC&p=NBCG5JZRB8C&live=true

-Jeff

http://americacoasters.com

This ride has been more trouble than it's worth. Of course we don't know yet what actually caused this woman's death, IMO the ride needs to be shut down permanantly. I know most will disagree with that, and I do see your point, but this ride has been a bigger headache than Windjammer and Superman:The Escape put together.

It's not even very fun.

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What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowman. That is the entire law; all the rest is commentary. -The Talmud

what is it with people dying on rides this year? especially in California?

sorry i didnt mean that to be disrespectful or anything
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"It was sure nice of Mr. Crab to give me a job here!" "And he was sure nice to start you off at $50 an hour! When i started, i had to pay Mr. Crab $100 an hour!"

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DWeaver said:
This ride has been more trouble than it's worth. Of course we don't know yet what actually caused this woman's death, IMO the ride needs to be shut down permanantly. I know most will disagree with that, and I do see your point, but this ride has been a bigger headache than Windjammer and Superman:The Escape put together.
It's not even very fun.
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What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowman. That is the entire law; all the rest is commentary. -The Talmud

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yeah but they eventually got S:TE working great, and Windjammer just sucked*****from the beginning, it was bound to happen 
PP just had one problem right after another... the track needing fixing, the paint peeling, the broken chain, and now this.. (which might not be a problem with the ride itself)
they fixed those problems already and as soon as they work the rest of the kinks out it will be open for good
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"It was sure nice of Mr. Crab to give me a job here!" "And he was sure nice to start you off at $50 an hour! When i started, i had to pay Mr. Crab $100 an hour!"

*** This post was edited by Wackokid on 9/22/2001. ***

No, I see where your coming from wackokid. This has been a terrible year for California parks as far as accidents. But I still maintain that rides and parks are safe, and have a far better safety record than simply driving in a car.
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What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowman. That is the entire law; all the rest is commentary. -The Talmud

And ever since it re-opened it seems to be very rough