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    FILE - In this July 9, 2014 file photo, riders are propelled by jets of water as they go over a hump while riding a water slide called "Verruckt" at Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kan. The family of Caleb Schwab, a 10-year-old boy who died while on the ride Aug. 7, 2016, testified in a hearing Wednesday, April 12, 2017, they have reached settlements with a general contractor and a consulting company involved in the building of what was billed as the world's largest waterslide. AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
    FILE – In this July 9, 2014 file photo, riders are propelled by jets of water as they go over a hump while riding a water slide called “Verruckt” at Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kan. The family of Caleb Schwab, a 10-year-old boy who died while on the ride Aug. 7, 2016, testified in a hearing Wednesday, April 12, 2017, they have reached settlements with a general contractor and a consulting company involved in the building of what was billed as the world’s largest waterslide. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

    KANSAS CITY, Kan. — An executive with the Kansas water park where a 10-year-old boy died on a giant waterslide has been charged with involuntary manslaughter.

    Tyler Austin Miles, an operations director for Schlitterbahn, was booked into the Wyandotte County jail Friday and is being held on $50,000 bond.

    Caleb Schwab died in August 2016 on the 17-story Verruckt water slide at the park in western Kansas City, Kansas. An autopsy revealed the boy was decapitated when the raft that he and two women were on went airborne. It hit a pole that supported nets that were designed to keep riders from flying off the ride.

    Winter Prospapio, a spokeswoman for Schlitterbahn, said the company was “deeply disappointed” that an individual was charged for the “terrible accident.”

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