The 168-foot Kansas City water slide where a 10-year-old boy died on Sunday was repeatedly delayed from opening in 2014 due to glitches - including one issue that caused water rafts to fly off the slide and into the air, prompting a slew of additional safety precautions, according to a documentary about the building of the amusement ride. Investigators are working to uncover exactly what happened to Caleb Schwab, the 10-year-old son of Kansas lawmaker Scott Schwab, on the 17-story Verrückt water slide at Kansas City's Schlitterbahn water park. In an episode chronicling the ride's construction and opening on the Travel Channel's Xtreme Waterparks,...
- 8/8/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
The 168-foot Kansas City water slide where a 10-year-old boy died on Sunday was repeatedly delayed from opening in 2014 due to glitches - including one issue that caused water rafts to fly off the slide and into the air, prompting a slew of additional safety precautions, according to a documentary about the building of the amusement ride. Investigators are working to uncover exactly what happened to Caleb Schwab, the 10-year-old son of Kansas lawmaker Scott Schwab, on the 17-story Verrückt water slide at Kansas City's Schlitterbahn water park. In an episode chronicling the ride's construction and opening on the Travel Channel's Xtreme Waterparks,...
- 8/8/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
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