Video reveals slingshot journey malfunctioning at London amusement park

Terrifying footage has captured the second a slingshot journey malfunctioned at a London amusement park simply seconds after launching — leaving two screaming teenage boys suspended within the air.

The horrific ordeal unfolded on the Winter Wonderland attraction in Hyde Park on Wednesday night time when one of many bungee-style cords supporting the journey’s metal cage appeared to snap in mid-air.

Footage from the scene confirmed the cage out of the blue crashing right into a mast and dangling on its aspect as shocked witnesses seemed on.

“We watched it for some time after which as we rotated there was a large bang and it was hanging on the aspect – two folks on the journey have been screaming,” witness Becky Littlewood informed the BBC.

“Then it seemed like they tried to reset the journey, as [the boys] have been being pulled up into the air.”

She added: “Safety got here working and began pushing us again.”

Emergency providers rushed to the scene however the metal cage had already been lowered to the bottom once they arrived, police mentioned.

The boys have been miraculously unhurt and left the scene after being seemed over by medics, cops added.

The Amusement Gadget Inspection Procedures Scheme — the business’s regulatory security physique — has blamed the ordeal on a “technical situation” with the journey’s gear-box.

“We are able to affirm that the elastic twine and the metal wire rope supporting the reverse bungee gondola during which the general public sit has not snapped or failed in any manner,” they mentioned in an announcement.

“We inspected the journey at 07:00GMT [Thursday] and it was discovered {that a} technical situation had occurred inside a sealed gear-box that controls the discharge of the elastic twine and metal wire rope.”

A Hyde Park Winter Wonderland spokesperson mentioned all different rides have been working as regular within the wake of the incident.