By Erika Hernandez
Visitors to Six Flags Over Texas experienced tense moments over the weekend after An electrical fault abruptly stopped the Titan roller coasterone of the most emblematic and tallest attractions of the amusement park located in Arlington, Texas.
The incident occurred on Saturday, when passengers were trapped halfway through the attraction and had to be manually evacuated by park staff, according to Fox News.
Movies shared on social networks showed dozens of visitors carefully descending a narrow and steep metal staircase attached to the enormous structure of the roller coaster.
The Titan stands approximately 245 feet tall and reaches speeds of up to 85 miles per hour, according to official information from Six Flags.
@foxnews Riders had been forced to evacuate a 245-foot-tall roller coaster at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington after a park-large power outage forced the meander to forestry. Guests had been seen taking the thick coast down emergency stairs alongside the coaster as onlookers on the bottom looked up in anxiety. In step with WFAA, the outage was introduced on by an inner technical blueprint that additionally forced the park to end early.
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Six Flags attributed the incident to an internal technical issue.
Park officials said the incident was caused by an internal technical problem that interrupted the power supply in different areas of the complexas reported by local station WFAA in Dallas.
Despite the disruption, the park reopened on Sunday.
The park authorities assured that The evacuation was completed safely and without injuries. However, the images quickly went viral and caused a wave of reactions among social media users.
“I could never get down from there, not at that height,” wrote one user on TikTok. Another commented: “I would never ride a roller coaster again.”
The incident also reignited online debate over roller coaster safety and amusement park emergency protocols.
While some users questioned whether these types of attractions are really safe, others defended the safety systems and recalled that roller coasters are subject to strict regulations and inspections.
Some visitors also expressed frustration over long lines and disruptions at several attractions during the blackout period.
“Something always happens at Six Flags,” another user wrote on social media.
Titan has operated at Six Flags since 2001
The Titan is one of the flagship attractions of Six Flags Over Texas and has been in operation since 2001.
The incident occurs months after another evacuation recorded at Six Flags Contemporary England, when passengers of the Superman the Bound attraction had to descend from an elevated section of the track after a failure in the customary cycle of the ride.
In that case, park officials indicated that trained employees accompanied the passengers throughout the evacuation and maintained constant communication with the visitors.
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