March 17, 2023 - Tyre Sampson plummeted to his death from the Orlando FreeFall drop tower in ICON Park on March 24 – a ride described by its operators as the world’s tallest freestanding drop tower.

December 15, 2024 - An Orlando jury awarded Tyre Sampson’s parents a $310 million verdict against Funtime, the Austrian-based manufacturer of the ICON Park ride that Sampson fell from and died, after Funtime did not appear during trial to defend itself.

December 6, 2024 - Tyre, 14, was visiting ICON theme park in Orlando with his American football team during spring break. After falling from the ride, he was taken to a nearby children's hospital where he died from his injuries.

March 21, 2025 - Tyre Sampson fell 70 feet to his death on March 24, 2022. A middle school football standout who stood 6 foot, 2 inches tall and weighed 380 pounds, he was visiting Orlando on spring break from the St.

December 6, 2024 - 14-year-old Tyre Sampson fell to his death from the 430-foot tall Orlando FreeFall ride​ in March 2022.

February 22, 2024 - https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/17/us/orlando-freefall-tower-dismantled-tyre-sampson/index.html · This article says they manually readjusted the harness to be wider than usual. Continue this thread Continue this thread · tylariousOG • 2y ago · They've removed the entire ride.

December 6, 2024 - A Florida jury has awarded $310 million to the family of Tyre Sampson, the 14-year-old who died in 2022 after falling from the FreeFall ride at ICON Park in Orlando.

December 7, 2024 - The family of Tyre Sampson, a 14-year-old boy who plunged to his death from a free-fall tower in Orlando, has been awarded $310 million by a jury.

March 24, 2023 - FreeFall ride, where 14-year-old Tyre Sampson lost his life, is being removed from ICON Park Orlando just 15 months after being certified by a state inspector.

March 24, 2023 - – It has been exactly one year ... riding the thrill ride, known as the world’s tallest free-standing drop tower, on March 24, 2022, when he fell as the ride was plummeting down....

March 15, 2023 - Tyre Sampson, a teen who was visiting Orlando from Missouri, fell from the 430-foot-tall Free Fall at ICON Park on March 24, 2022.

December 6, 2024 - Tyre Sampson, who was 6ft 2in tall and weighed 27 stone (172kg), plunged about 100ft (30 metres) from the Orlando Free Fall at ICON Park in Florida.

March 26, 2022 - What I have trouble understanding is how things like this happen TODAY in this day in age I truly would have thought that there would be numerous safety protocols in placw to ensure the safety of all the riders. Especially in Orlando because with Disney and Universal being in Orlando it has some of the strictest regulations many of which Disney implemented for the safety of their guests.

December 6, 2024 - Funtime-Handels makes rides that are installed at theme parks around the world. In March 2022 during his spring break, 14-year-old Tyre Sampson was on the Tyre ride at ICON park in Orlando.

June 28, 2025 - Fourteen-year-old student and football player Tyre Sampson died from injuries sustained after falling from his seat on the Orlando Free Fall tower ride, formerly sited at Icon Park, in March of 2022.

December 6, 2024 - The parents of a 14-year-old Missouri boy who fell to his death from an Orlando amusement park ride in 2022 have won a $310 million verdict against the attraction’s Austrian builder.