Dollywood closes drop tower ride out of 'abundance of caution' after fatal fall at Orlando amusement park
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By Jamiel Lynch, CNN Dollywood is temporarily closing its drop tower attraction after a boy fell to his death from a similar type of ride by the same manufacturer at a park in Orlando, a spokesman for Dolly Parton’s Tennessee theme park said.
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PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (AP) — Dollywood amusement park in Tennessee said Sunday it has temporarily closed a ride developed by the same maker of a free-fall ride from which a
Dollywood is closing one of their rides which was developed from the same manufacturer as the Orlando FreeFall ride in Orlando, Florida, where one teenager fell off and died on Thursday night.
Dollywood officials said the Drop Line is not the exact ride involved in a fatal accident at an Orlando theme park. They closed it out of an abundance of caution.
By Jamiel Lynch, CNN Dollywood is temporarily closing its drop tower attraction after a boy fell to his death from a similar type of ride by the same manufacturer at a park in Orlando, a spokesman for Dolly Parton’s Tennessee theme park said.
The Tennessee amusement park says its Drop Line is a 230-foot tall tower made by Funtime Rides from Austria. So was the Orlando ride where a teen fell to his death.
Tyre Sampson, 14, fell off of the FreeFall ride at Orlando's ICON Park on Thursday night. The ride is 430-feet-tall, according to the attraction. The ride is operated by the SlingShot Group of Companies.
The Drop Line ride at Dollywood was closed "out of an abundance of caution" after Tyre Sampson, 14, fell out of the Orlando Free Fall attraction at ICON Park, officials said.
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