Supergirl Sky Flight ride halted during rain storm at Six Flags Mexico
Visitors to a theme park in Mexico City got the biggest scare of a lifetime as they flew through the air like superheroes. The incident happened on August 18. Six Flags MexicoIf you're not familiar with the brand, let us tell you that Six Flags is a chain of theme parks in North America featuring rides, merchandise, and other attractions based on Warner Bros. properties. Six Flags Over Texas was the first park, followed by Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey, Six Flags Great America in Illinois, Six Flags Magic Mountain in California, and many more. Six Flags Mexico was originally Reino Aventura until Six Flags acquired it in 1999. Like other Six Flags parks, Six Flags Mexico features rides based on DC Comics superheroes, such as the famous batman the ride,
This tragic incident happened on one of these. This ride was earlier called Sky Screamer, but later its name was changed to Sky Screamer. Supergirl Sky Flight In 2018; it is a tower that is 242 feet high and guests are spun at speeds of up to 40 miles per hour on a series of carts attached to the top of the structure so that Supergirl can fly through the air. The ride is said to give guests a beautiful view of Mexico City as they fly through the sky. On August 18, According to Fox WeatherThe ride suddenly stopped due to bad weather, leaving park-goers hanging in the air as heavy rain fell. Omar Hernandez Medrano, one of the guests stranded on Supergirl Sky Flight during the storm, recorded a video of the incident that he shared with Storyful, which you can watch below:
The storm caused the Sky Screamer ride to stop, leaving riders hanging over the top of Six Flags Mexico. The ride stopped due to heavy rain and wind. pic.twitter.com/nZcBk0Ygo4
— AccuWeather (@accuweather) August 26, 2024
Mr. Medrano says he and the other passengers were stuck on Supergirl Sky Flight for ten minutes. Fortunately, Six Flags Mexico reports no one was injured, and Supergirl Sky Flight was running again shortly after that – though I doubt anyone came back on after that. It must have been pretty frightening for the park-goers, as they sat helplessly in the broken ride, with heavy rain falling on them. You can hear people screaming in the video; the height requirement for the Supergirl Sky Flight ride is 1.12 meters, which equates to about 3 feet, 7 inches (if accompanied by a parent), so there may have been children on the ride at the time. (Mr. Medrano doesn't clarify which ones there were.) It's enough to put children off theme parks for life.
Based on my experience at Great Adventure (which I have to go way back since I haven't been to a theme park in a while), Six Flags' rides are designed to feel a little more death-defying than places like Disney World or Universal Studios. I remember roller coasters like The Great American Scream Machine and Batman & Robin: The Chiller taking you on a wild ride at high speeds, and some others launching you into the air. I took a look Kingda Ka and went back to the snack bar because that wasn't happening. I can't imagine being stuck in something like that in a rainstorm when the ride stops in the air; the worst I got was a splitting headache from banging my head on the little rockets in the chiller. (I went on a high school trip to Great Adventure and I remember my math teacher expressing her displeasure with that aspect of the chiller.) But, thankfully, everyone came out of Supergirl Sky Flight just fine, and now they'll have a great story to tell at parties.
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