Mission:Space keeps getting the blame
 

Woman Dies a day After Disney World ride
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It's most likely the old heart condition thing again. I admit though, that it makes me a bit nervous.

I wonder if people, being idiots, don't appreciate the nature of the warnings? I have no idea, this is just fanciful speculation, but maybe people with heart conditions see roller coasters and it registers that they shouldn't go on, but see M:S and think it's "just" a simulater?

Ooh! (raising hands and waving animatedly) I have a heart condition, I can never ride Pooh again!

I think that people just don't realize that they have heart conditions. I know that the five year old little boy that died on MS before was perfectly healthy.

I thought they discovered he had an undiagnosed heart condition?

Yes, that's what Traci was referring to. It's not so much that people are ignoring the warnings. Most of the cases have been people who, for all they knew, were perfectly healthy only to find that MS causes complications with otherwise unkown conditions.

I know no one here will believe this .... but it's The Curse.

Building Mission Space upon the ruins of Horizons is akin to building the Overlook Hotel on ancient Indian burial grounds.

How many people does this ride handle daily? 12,000? (guesstimate of 12 hours of operation and 1000/hour - I could be way off, but based on a 4 minute ride with 160 on it at a time, that would be an absolute max of 2400/hour, but I doubt that happens.).

That would be 4,380,000 annually. There are now two deaths supposedly attributable to this ride working completely as designed, and it has been open abot 2.5 years. That would mean there have been about 11 million riders since it opened (granted many are repeaters).

2 out of 11 million? Those were not from accidents on the ride itself. I would figure if the ride was too stressful (2 g's is not much to endure), there would be a lot more of this kind of thing.

Edited to add:
My dad lives about an hour from WDW. He's had two heart attacks and a quad bipass. Still rides it and loves it. I would throw in a comment a tasteless comment right now, but it would be, well, tasteless.

The question is were these hidden conditions brought out by the stress of the ride or is it just cooincidence? Would they have eventually happend walking down the street or did the ride make the condition worse?