30 anxious minutes
Visitors hung upside down in faulty ride
On Friday, 28 visitors to an amusement park in Portland in the US state of Oregon experienced a frightening 30 minutes. When a ride called AtmosFEAR suddenly jammed due to a defect, they hung upside down at a dizzying height for half an hour.
Only then did firefighters and Oak Amusement Park technicians manage to manually lower the ride, which had become stuck at its highest point. All passengers were freed and medically examined, according to a statement.
In the AtmosFEAR ride, which has been in operation since 2021, passengers sit on a platform that is propelled up and down, at times hanging upside down. It was in this position that the structure came to a standstill on Friday.
When the ride got stuck, visitors to the amusement park shouted "Oh my God, they're upside down", eyewitnesses told the Associated Press news agency.
The amusement park was closed and people were evacuated. The cause of the malfunction is still unclear. A statement from the park said that all visitors affected by the incident would be refunded the price of admission ...
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