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Astroworld planners foresaw crowding before deadly festival: ‘No way we are going to fit 50k’
Experts say planners misunderstood how many people they legally could pack into the festival and failed to monitor for signs of crowd crush.
Ten days before the 2021 Astroworld music festival, the event’s safety director was worried about whether organizers could cram throngs of fans in front of main act Travis Scott. With the first trial among hundreds of lawsuits over the festival set to begin in May, the plaintiffs’ consultants soon could battle in court with expert witnesses for defendants including Scott, multinational concert company Live Nation and venue manager ASM Global. On Oct. 27, 2021, festival operations director Emily Ockenden, an employee of event production company BWG, had a text message conversation with Kathryn Paraskevas, who was drafting a site plan for Astroworld using a computer-assisted design program.
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