The Kansas water park owner who helped design the waterslide that decapitated a 10-year-old boy in 2016 has “no technical or engineering skills,” according to a new lawsuit. Jeffrey Henry, co-owner of Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, “lacked the expertise to properly design” Verrückt, the waterslide that killed Caleb Schwab on Aug. 7, 2016, contends a lawsuit brought by the state of Kansas against the water park and its former director of operations Tyler Miles. The complaint, filed Wednesday at Wyandotte County District Court in Kansas City, also accuses John Schooley, the lead designer of Verrückt, of having “no engineering credentials relevant to amusement ride design or safety.”Verrückt’s design “violated nearly all aspects of ... longstanding industry safety standards,” amusement ride design and safety experts found, according to the lawsuit. “Due to Henry and Schooley’s lack of expertise and a desire to rush the timeline, they skipped fundamental steps in the design process,” the lawsuit contends. “In place of mathematical and physics calculations, they rushed forward relying almost entirely on crude trial-and-error methods.”

Source: Huffington Post March 25, 2018 19:30 UTC