People hoping for a fun-filled day out were left terrified when they found themselves dangling high in the air while being lashed with wind and rain at a theme park.
A torrential storm which closed in on the Six Flags complex led to dangerous conditions, with one ‘merciless’ ride forced to shut down.
One of the those perched in a chair held up by chains over 200ft above the ground managed to film the hair-raising moment, showing just how relentless the weather was with sleet and fog as well as the downpour.
‘It started raining and we got stuck up on the ride. I couldn’t tell if I was trembling from fear,’ they said in a voiceover.
It’s not clear how long the visitors were left trapped in the sky at the theme park in Mexico City.
Local media said a slow descent was eventually initiated so everyone on the ride’s 32 chairs could get off safely on August 21.
The ride was then kept out of service until the storm passed.
The ride in question is the Supergirl Sky Flight, which spins at 40 mph and is described by Six Flags as ‘merciless’.
This is how the theme park describes the experience : ‘You’re sitting in a swing chair, dangling loose 20 stories up, getting hurled around in a 98ft circle – talk about airtime.’
Metro.co.uk has contacted Six Flags for comment.
It’s the latest in a string of near-misses at theme parks around the world.
Riders faced a similar situation last week when the 360-degree spinning Vortex rollercoaster got stuck at Sea World on Australia’s Gold Coast.
The ride, which can hit 30 km per hour, jammed around 30m off the ground with 13 people on board.
Closer to home, 25 people were trapped mid-air on the Super Trooper ride in Skegness when it broke down on August 20.
It comes as the Pacific is battered by storms this week, with three tropical cyclones swirling over the ocean yesterday
Tropical Storm Hone brought heavy rain to Hawaii, Hurricane Gilma was gaining strength, and Tropical Storm Hector was churning westward, far off the coast of the southern tip of Baja California.
Gilma was expected to still be a hurricane when it reaches the central Pacific basin on Tuesday.
Hector had top sustained winds of 50mph and was centred about 1,125 miles west-southwest of the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja peninsula, moving west-northwest at 10mph.
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