I was wandering what the circumstances around it's removal was, I had always thought it was because of the death, but I noticed in KIC History that it lasted several years after that, and was replaced by nothing.

Indirectly, I suppose it was as a result of the death. After that, ridership declined precipitously. There had also been modifications made to the ride, and I remember they made the never very thrilling ride even less so.

I think that it's because the ride worked better in theory than in actuality. As Interp said, there was not much thrill nor much of anything to the ride. Heck, I think that the Zodiac was a much better ride.

Of course I never rode it, but I always thought it looked like fun.

Yes, it looked like fun...but so does the Aviator ride at Kings Dominion. Looks can be deceiving. Sometimes very much so!

All I know is as a scrawny (but tall) little kid the OTSR's were crushingly restrictive!! Booo....no Flags!! nm, wrong company

Yeah, I never cared for it much, only rode it a couple of times, but that's what I kind of figured that people didn't want to ride it after the accident. Zodiac looks super cool, I wish I had gotten a chance to ride that.