it was an employee accidents do happen lets remember he was a person, who unfortunately died. In February 1999 a park custodian was killed when he was cleaning the platform and the skyway started unexpectedly because employee's didn't see him so they started the ride. He grabbed onto one of the vehicles for safety then fell 40 feet into a flower bed where afterwards he was rushed to the hospital and died of injurys later. However according to many sites the reason for closing the attraction were mostly economic.