Skyhawk Cable Snap - July 26, 2014

Glad that she flys once again!

e x i t english said:
My guess is it will be running in Def Leppard mode for a while.

Just pour some sugar on it in the name of love.

RideMan said:
Our best chance of getting the real story is for S&S to issue a maintenance bulletin describing a vaguely similar sort of incident.

What about ride inspection reports from the state, since they are public record. What kind of information do they typically contain?

A State inspection report probably won't be terribly enlightening. It may include a checklist of inspection points on the ride, all of which passed. If the State inspector finds any deficiencies, those will be noted, along with an indication that those deficiencies were corrected or rendered non-hazardous.

Basically a State inspection would only be interesting if the ride fails, and the park isn't going to request reinspection unless they are pretty sure the ride is going to pass.

That's why a bulletin would be the most enlightening probability...from the manufacturer trying to prevent a reoccurrence on another machine.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Do they always issue those? Or do they sometimes just recommend changes to the park which are then made during the off-season?

I think back to the additional supports being added to Wicked Twister. That seems like a case where Intamin came to Cedar Point with design changes they recommended.

I don't think we are going to get a real story. We never ended up getting one for Shawn's beloved Shoot the Rapids. They have no reason to have to give us one.

It would be nice to find out what really happened on STR.

Has Skyhawk reopened? I have seen it in operation on the webcams.

Just one side

And does anyone know what happens with the ride crew when their attraction is down for an extended period of time like the Skyhawk situation, or when their ride needs a part like TTD did back in June??

Do they still get paid? Do they still work? Like I've always wondered.

Typically they get moved to a different ride or job.

https://twitter.com/pointbuzz/status/502505834245783552

Also looks like they installed a safety cable at to top of each main cable to keep it from falling on riders, should the cable detach again.

Another reason why I will ride it again.

Hell I rode it after it got up in Def Leppard mode, stuff breaks, it gets fixed. It's still the best flat ride in the park

I went on it for the first time, the day after it snapped. I trust that they will fix the problem, it is a very good ride.

I rode it tonight. They had both sides swinging, but weren't loading people on the side that had the cable snap.

A ride op told me that both sides would be running with people tomorrow. Not sure if that part's true or not though.

AlexGillman said:
I went on it for the first time, the day after it snapped...

Not too sure how that's possible when it was closed for 6 days before reopening the one side.

Sorry, I didn't mean that. I was at the park the day after it snapped, but I didn't ride it for my first time until this last Monday.

No worried! I see what you're saying now.