https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG-uY2wze2Y
Here’s a video of it in operation. Was he probably secured?
That is the big question. The riders are secured with hook and loop (Velcro) straps and everyone who has ever dealt with Velcro knows that after a while the loops break and the holding ability of it is reduced.
There are videos from before the ride was modified that show sandbag-weighted rafts flying off the slide.
Way too young, too short and too small to be on this ride. Parents should have said absolutely not if kiddo even asked if he could ride. Park employees should have never allowed him to climb those stairs, regardless of whether a parent was with them or not and regardless of who the parent is.
Apparently a woman sitting behind him had a broken jaw.
if you spend time looking around, the decapitation is well known.