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Disney won't change height limit on ride
Associated Press
Published September 23, 2005
ORLANDO - Disney officials turned down a request for a tougher thrill ride height restriction made by the parents of a 4-year-old Pennsylvania boy who died after passing out on Epcot's Mission: Space ride, according to the family's attorney.
Moses and Agnes Bamuwamye of Sellersville, Pa. proposed raising the minimum height from 44 to 51 inches in a letter their attorney sent to Disney officials last month.
Disney rejected the change because the boy's death has not been conclusively linked to the ride.
"Simply to make a change on no informed basis would be false solace to those affected and of no benefit to anyone else," Margaret C. Giacalone, a member of Disney's legal staff, wrote to the Bamuwamyes' attorney. "Further, the minimum height requirement was carefully considered, analyzed and established on the basis of a variety of factors."
Daudi Bamuwamye was 2 inches taller than the simulated spaceship ride's 44-inch height requirement. The cause of the boy's June 13 death remains under investigation.
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