View Full Version : Another death on Mission Space
LiesaAnna
14-04-2006, 15:30
very sad, our sympathys to the family
Not good at all. Def will not be riding it now!!!! (Was too chicken last time we went!!!)
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tezz7628
04-05-2006, 20:53
rss feed for orlando sentinel saying at least one system will be available with no centrifugal force by early summer
nicklangdon
04-06-2006, 23:12
we went on the new version of mission space last week and to be honest it was very good you just dont feel the pressure in your stomach on take off but still a great ride.
floridageoff
04-06-2006, 23:19
I suffer with motion sickness, so have never been able to ride Mission Space. I'm looking forward to my next visit now, just got to wait for November.
Lesley S
05-06-2006, 03:02
We went on the tame version the other day, it was good, but did not have the same feeling as the more intense version.
You are given green or orange tickets when you go to join the queue, green is for tame version and orange for intense ride, if you do not have one of these tickets (information leaflets) you are not able to ride.
jackie greaves
05-06-2006, 17:26
I absolutely love this ride, can't imagine having to do the tame version. But at least you now have a choice.
sammibabe
13-06-2006, 23:57
Has someone really died on this ride? Or am I missing something? [?]
no sam there have been a few deaths since it opened.....
Perhaps we should say that a couple of people have died who had unknown medical problems from beforehand which neither they, nor anyone else, knew about.
ShirleyD
14-06-2006, 02:26
It seems that this was because they had medical problems, although the articles didn't say if they were known or not. Disney have now introduced a less extreme version of the ride.
Just correcting my previous statement that both had undiagnosed medical conditions as the second death was a woman with high blood pressure. My apologies.
An autopsy by Dr. Jan. C. Garavaglia, chief medical examiner for the district that includes Orange and Osceola counties, found that the first person (a boy of four but within the height limit of 44 inches) died of a heart attack caused by a previously undiagnosed, rare heart disease that gave him an enlarged heart flawed with scar tissue.
Another autopsy is pending for (the second person, aged 49), though a preliminary report said she had severe high blood pressure and died of a stroke.
The warnings before te ride include, among other things, that people with heart conditions or high blood pressure should not ride.
Apparently, 11 million people have been on the ride since it opened in 2003.