Malfunction At Thunder River Rapids

by Major Tue Oct 25, 2016 1:59 pm

Four people have died after a raft flipped off a family-friendly river rapids ride at Dreamworld theme park in Australia.
The Thunder River Rapids ride suffered a 'malfunction' which caused two people to be thrown from the six-person raft and two people to be trapped in its conveyor belt on Tuesday.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3869782/Tragedy-Australian-theme-park-four-people-CRUSHED-death-Thunder-River-Rapids-water-ride-flips-over.html#ixzz4O6Kmiume
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How awful, what a tragedy.

Saying that, what do you expect when using a potentially dangerous piece of machinery?

by Original Quill Tue Oct 25, 2016 5:29 pm

I saw in this am news. Awful.

by Andy Tue Oct 25, 2016 5:34 pm

Was the malfunction related to the capsize?

by Original Quill Tue Oct 25, 2016 5:38 pm

Handy Andy wrote:Was the malfunction related to the capsize?

As far as the news here is concerned, they don't yet know. Clearly, I think, if the ride had functioned as it should have, the raft would not have capsized. The investigation is on-going.

by Major Tue Oct 25, 2016 5:58 pm

There are always tragedies which seem to happen not long before Christmas.

by veya_victaous Wed Oct 26, 2016 4:40 am

to be fair this is normally a safe ride.
it has been operating without major incident for nearly 30 years.

very sad and there are major investigations under way to find out the cause.

by 'Wolfie Wed Oct 26, 2016 10:13 am

They had named the four adult victims, on the news here tonight :

http://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/at-least-four-people-injured-after-serious-dreamworld-incident/news-story/ab194466f5fd49e1e1c17e5468bbbd47

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-26/girls-survived-dreamworld-rapids-ride-accident-which-killed-four/7965068

Dreamworld is located around 800kms (500 miles) north of here..
I've driven past there a handful of times, but never actually been into that theme park.

by veya_victaous Wed Oct 26, 2016 11:20 am

There used to wonderland near my house in blacktown (it closed a decade ago)
it had the same ride but called snowy river rampage, and to be honest it is a relative safe set up.

And I have been on a malfunctioning loop the loop ride it was stuck upside down for like 45 mins
I was only about 9 or 10 and would have been far more freaked if i wasn't with my older cousins that kept us thinking it was fun it wasn't until they basically were at the point of extracting us that i realized how serious it was.

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