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"The lives of four people killed on a Dreamworld ride could have been saved by replacing a piece of equipment 'costing only a couple of hundred dollars,' according to experts.
David Eager, an associate professor of engineering at UTS said it was likely the Thunder River Rapids ride had a faulty limit switch - a sensor device that keeps distance between rafts.
He said a new limit switch would have only cost the Gold Coast theme park a couple of hundred dollars."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-prevented-cheap-equipment.html#ixzz4ORNmKIRQ
David Eager, an associate professor of engineering at UTS said it was likely the Thunder River Rapids ride had a faulty limit switch - a sensor device that keeps distance between rafts.
He said a new limit switch would have only cost the Gold Coast theme park a couple of hundred dollars."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-prevented-cheap-equipment.html#ixzz4ORNmKIRQ