Police: 'Human Error' Behind Girl's Six Flags Fall

After a 14-year-old fell some 25 feet from a gondola ride and onto the crowd below at Six Flags Great Escape in New York on Saturday, park officials said they hadn't uncovered any malfunction that would have precipitated her fall. 

Now police are saying much the same. Though the Post-Star reports police as of Monday morning hadn't interviewed the Delaware girl or her brother, who accompanied her on the ride, they believe "human error" is to blame. 

While it remains unclear precisely what happened, the paper provides two scenarios: "It appeared that she was either not paying proper attention or was fooling around to slide underneath the bar."

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