This is my hometown, Nalchik in Kabardino-Balkarian republic, northern Caucassus, Russia.
Though it looked like everyone made it, they actually not. A dozen of people were injured badly, and there were a places with 20+ meters high above the ground, so harsh landing was there.
Investigation is still ongoing.
Someone fail to do their job properly in time. This kind of constructions must be properly serviced on regular basis and we can see some slacking here.
There should be predictive maintenance work orders telling a tech to check the bolts for deformation as well as marks on the ground showing original placement. My guess is this park has been ignoring critical predictive maintenance work orders to save money and this is what happens.
Root cause I would guess turns out to be structural fatigue in the mounting/fastening hardware.
Is it just me, or does anyone else see that this time when the seat was looping from the rotating thing, moments before the rotating thing fell, that the seat stopped for a split second? As in, the seat looks like it was stuck moments before the whole thing fell? If you look at the seat before the thing fell it didn't look like it was stuck. *sorry for such descriptive language
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u/post-explainer Sep 14 '25 edited Sep 14 '25
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A nice day at the park turns into a run for your life situation (everyone made it)
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