What the F Happened??? Ohio State Ride Fireball

[SandalsParticipant 4253]

I put this in here because it’s technology, and no good place to put it really.

MGTOW are the smartest people on earth. As far as I can tell, the seat just left of the lead seat comes off and crashes into the back seat, just after incline begins after the ride is perpendicular to the ground. I can’t tell if the sound is the seat crashing or an exasperation from air or hydraulics, or something else.

Who can figure out what the f~~~ happened??????? Why exactly did this ride fail? Can we piece this together? If anybody can solve this, it’s MGTOW.

WARNING: This video shows a horrific accident in which someone dies, and people are flailing about for their lives. If this type of thing disturbs you, do NOT watch. It is a VERY disturbing video.

[Anonymous 14]

That one kid on the top right was like “Look mom, I’m Superman!”.

Ok, seriously now, I am done with any and all rides, the last time I got on one I was drunk as s~~~ anyhow and I lost about 20 bucks of beer into a garbage can right afterwards.

[SandalsParticipant 4253]

Oh, that’s not cool Joe. Edit that out before it’s too late.

[SandalsParticipant 4253]

Slow motion

[Anonymous 14]

Sandals wrote:

Oh, that’s not cool Joe. Edit that out before it’s too late.

I guarantee you that kid lived. It was someone down at the bottom where the impact was who bought it I bet. I have personally fallen 15 feet to grass in the same position that kid was in and was ok 20 plus onto cement on purpose on the run off a building, only suffered a jammed ankle, jogged away from that one with a slight limp though.

Either way, I hope someone pays for this. But we all know how this works, nobody goes to jail anymore for anything, insurance company will pay through the nose for it though I bet.

[SandalsParticipant 4253]

I want to know what happened from an engineering perspective. Does anybody have any idea?

[Anonymous 6]

See this is why i don’t get on those rides when i go to amusement parks or carnivals. Keep me on the ground. I’ll do the ground activities. Praying for the safety and the lives of those affected by this. Damn.

[Anonymous 14]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4734048/One-dead-six-injured-ride-malfunction-Ohio-fair.html

Superman kid made it, hopefully he is not too bad off, this report says 3 are in bad shape in the hospital. An 18 year old died when the piece that broke off slammed into the ground with him in it like I guessed.

Young small/athletic boys are like cats, I know, I got away with a lot of s~~~ in my youth that would have easily crippled or killed grown men and women.

[SandalsParticipant 4253]

How the hell does a piece just break off? How many failures would have to happen for that to take place? Multiple failures, I am guessing. What on earth happened??

[Anonymous 14]

S~~~ another report says the guy thrown high in the air was the 18 year old who died…That looked like a small kid to me…If that’s the case, sorry man. I guess he was kinda falling in a slightly head down position and could not recover in the air and only had his hands to protect him. Sounds like it was lights out right away for him. Brutal.

Still can’t figure it out, all reports say the youngest treated was 13 and that looks to me to be the one doing the Superman.

[SandalsParticipant 4253]

2012 inspection

[SandalsParticipant 4253]

Anonymous wrote:

S~~~ another report says the guy thrown high in the air was the 18 year old who died…That looked like a small kid to me…If that’s the case, sorry man. I guess he was kinda falling in a slightly head down position and could not recover in the air and only had his hands to protect him. Sounds like it was lights out right away for him. Brutal

This gives a very good idea of just how fast he was thrown off. The way his seat was coming around looks like it would have made the fastest speed the ride could go, like from 2:01 – 2:03.

[AutoliteParticipant]

I’m thinking it might have been a catastrophic failure due to possible metal fatigue on a critical component. A visual inspection alone will not necessarily pick up something like that. There are specific “Non-Destructive Testing” methods designed to catch cracks or damage that the naked eye can’t. If the equipment isn’t inspected for metal fatigue damage using an NDT process, this kinda s~~~ can happen…

[Anonymous 42]

My two cents? Metal fatigue.

Notice the failure happened at maximum stress-load past the bottom of the swing when momentum and gravity both at their strongest.

Sonic inspection of the other joints and swivels will reveal flaws in the engineering where stress loads were not properly gusseted, not thick enough T-1 steel in the right places or the wrong steel was used in MFG, or wrong welding rods were accidentally used, it was a time bomb from the manufacturer.

Main clue I see is it sheered off at the point where the most stretching and compression happens and switches load back and forth like bending a coat hanger until it fails.

The only other thing could be a void cavity (bubble) in the steel shaft that connects the seat to the control arm.

When I want that kind of rush from flying and vertigo I go skiing! Much safer landings when equipment fails (tree strikes not withstanding).

P.S. Was the math ever done for passenger load variations; kids on one side, the ever increasing in numbers and weight landwhales on the other?

Was the seat axis load off the superstructure hung directly off the hydraulic drive motor, or did it have it’s own spindle and u-joint/CV-joint spline connection?

They built that thing with passenger loads in mind and not machine loads in mine like and excavator, you’re safer playing with and excavator, even modify one if you like!

Hey CATERPILLAR, you should open a subdivision in the ambusement park industry, you’ll make a killing! The right way!

Did Renault build it? Yugo? Was it made in Chickching China?

[chirParticipant]

Looks like one of the cars attached to those arms hit the floor. Watch when the thing is at its lowest point, you hear the impact as it moves left (POV from the camera) and is on the upswing. Since it was just one car that caught the ground I suspect MG-Tower was right. Some metal failure let one car hang down too far and it caught the ground which ripped it off.

It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, it is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning; it is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

[ResidentEvil7Participant 9547]

Do I need another reason to hate carnival rides?! I don’t like carnival rides because I have a fear of speed and crazy movements. It’s kind of funny, because I can ride in a car going 50, but I can’t go on a ride going the same speed.

Last time I was on a ride was at my town’s fair and it was a spinning ride. I felt sick, but I thought I was fine enough to go on the Ferris Wheel (the only ride I have a tolerance for). On the Ferris Wheel, I got sicker and threw up in my mouth and had to swallow it, because there was no trash can there. Luckily there was an olive oil and vinegar store near by and I took some free samples and then my stomach felt fine.

Another time I had a bad experience was on a spinning ride that was going extra fast, extra long. I had just drank one of those blue Italian ice, and threw it up, because it was a 100 degree day (high humidity) and I was stuck on that ride going extra fast and extra long. I felt so bad after that, I had to go to an air conditioned police trailer to get hydrated.

I’m the kind of guy who needs to be on the ground safe and no movement. I’d rather watch the ride than be on the ride.

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[Anonymous 42]

On second look I thought the seats rotated for some reason, but I’m seeing a much larger culprit notice the four metal posts at all four corners that maybe raise and lower the passenger loading platform.

The entire superstructure is a spinning wheel subject to the laws of balance and subsequent “oselations”.

If they “hit bottom” legs would have been sheered clean off.

I think the back of the arm holding the seat struck one of those platform stanchions.

Passenger loading variations and not enough dampening (if any) may be the cause, I’ve seen car tires bounce like basketb~~~~ when the shock absorber is completely blown out.

I think the spinning part of the superstructure was grossly loaded and out of balance and struck the post.

That s~~~ makes airplanes crash on takeoff!

[Solo MAN’S WisdomParticipant]

Sandals wrote:

Does anybody have any idea?

Carnies. Carnies — small rat-like people that assemble and disassemble circus and fair rides. They’ve never seen or heard of a torque wrench.

When women lead, destruction is the destination. -- Me.

[Anonymous 42]

Solo MAN’S Wisdom wrote:

They’ve never seen or heard of a torque wrench.

Auu Whaaat? We use Vice-grips and a hammer!

[AutoliteParticipant]

Anonymous wrote:

P.S. Was the math ever done for passenger load variations; kids on one side, the ever increasing in numbers and weight landwhales on the other?

I saw a video of a passenger airplane crash that happened shortly after TO. The investigators determined the the elevator control cables were grossly ‘out-of-rig’ and that the pilot did not have enough range of movement on the elevator to properly control the aircraft.

Another thing that they determined was that the aircraft was also overloaded with pax and luggage. When calculating weight and balance, the formula they use has a single standard average weight for each person on-board. But that average weight standard is decades too old. The average weight for a person today is considerably heavier than it was fifty years ago. They claimed that this discrepancy was a contributing factor in the crash…

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