Thrill-seekers were left stuck terrified when a ride broke down and left them 10 metres up in the air and hanging upside down at a theme park.
Over 20 people became victims of the malfunctioning ride and were stuck hanging upside down for around 10 minutes last week.
In the videos, tourists can be seen trapped in their seats with their feet up in the air at the highest point of the giant malfunctioning swing and it was reportedly a 10-minute wait before the trapped people could get off.
After the footage began circling social media, the management company of the theme park, released a follow-up statement.
Staff claimed that the big pendulum was swinging by inactivity because the weight of the people sitting on both sides was the same, so it stopped at the top, and it recovered in about 10 minutes.
They added they carry out daily checks on the machine and that if any of the involved tourists are injured, they can get reimbursed with a hospital check-up receipt.
Witnesses filmed the scare in China's Funan County, Anhui Province, in the east of the country, and shared the footage on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.
At the start of January, a 400-foot-tall Ferris wheel at Orlando, Florida’s Icon Park lost power and left 62 riders suspended in midair.
According to one stunned onlooker, there was a fire of some sort at the base of the ride. “We look down and there were flames and sparks and smoke coming. I guess the generator blew or something,” park-goer Robin Baker told WESH 2.
First responders had to manually turn the wheel so 80 firefighters could attempt to rescue all the occupants, Orange County Fire Department public information officer Ashley Gipson told Fox News.
The ordeal took three hours and the Fire Department later confirmed that none of the passengers were injured. However, videos on Twitter appeared to support the online speculation that one of the ride’s generators blew, resulting in the wheel being stopped.
