Green Lantern accident, Australia

[owentaylor121]

The Green Lantern in Australia, Gold Coast has had an accident.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-31898746

 

[owentaylor121]

Could someone please fix the link, on tapatalk so found it hard to use the URL.

 

[Temleh]

Oh my...

An El Loco is probably the worst coaster you'd want to have a car derail on, glad nobody was injured. I wonder if it's a design flaw on S&S's part? Hopefully the investigation is quick and the cause is identified.

 

[spicy]

Glad no one was hurt, I was only on this a few weeks ago.

I wonder what caused it. Looks like a wheel bearing failure or something.

 

[Ethan]

BBC News said on the telly this morning they were stranded "50 metres" high.

Slight confusion between feet and metres methinks.

 

[Sneaky]

^
Not only BBC. The Dutch news site nu.nl also stated "stranded at 50 meters", and I believe I've also seen it elsewhere.
Quite an achievement for a coaster that has a maximum height of about 30 meters.
But considering riders were stranded at about half that height (15m or ~50 ft), I think it is indeed a confusion between feet and meters.