Customers were suspended high in the air on the flagship new ride at Barry Island Pleasure Park during a power outage. The ride 'Aerospace' was stuck for about half an hour from around 6pm on Saturday. The £3million attraction, which arrived in July and lifts thrill-seekers to heights of 214ft, is the amusement park's biggest and most expensive ride.
Speaking about the "trip" mechanism protecting the power transformer, the park's owner Henry Danter said: "We had a new transformer in and there was a trip on it. I don't think the trip was set high enough. Maybe all the rides went on at the same time and it wasn't set high enough for the new rides that had come in. We've got a bigger trip going in next Wednesday or Thursday."
One person who was in the amusement park at the time said the people on the ride were "petrified". Mr Danter said: "People get petrified on these rides anyway — that's the kind of rides they are. They are white-knuckle rides. Some people said afterwards, 'Oh that was a long ride.' A lot of people saw the humour in it."
