!!!YOU CAN RECREATE THE HANGING UPSIDE DOWN EVENT!!!
June 12, 2007 - 7:16AM
A dozen riders on a roller-coaster were left hanging upside down - 46 metres above the ground - after a power outage shut down the ride.
It took about 30 minutes for firefighters to rescue the riders using a ladder truck, said Aundrea Crary, spokeswoman for the Magic Springs & Crystal Falls amusement park in Arkansas.
Spectators cheered when the riders were brought to the ground from the highest point of a loop on the X-Coaster.
The X-Coaster was one of several rides brought to a halt by the outage that originated somewhere near the park.
"You could tell who got off the [X-Coaster] because their faces were red," said Angela Salter.
She was riding the Gauntlet, another coaster, and said park employees worked quickly to free her.
The park resumed normal operations, although the X-Coaster remained closed.
One X-Coaster rider, Jay Plummer, 37, was taken to a hospital after complaining of neck pain and a headache.
"It was very scary," said his girlfriend, Connie McBride. "I love the amusement park, but I will never get on the X-Coaster again."
The park has experienced outages before, but usually they last only seconds, said Dan Aylward, Magic Springs president and general manager.