Jaw-dropping moment man climbs out of moving roller coaster after safety bar unlatches seconds before huge drop

Horrifying compartment telephone footage captured a antheral climbing retired of his spot connected a roller coaster erstwhile helium realized his information barroom unlatched.

The incidental happened astatine Castles N' Coasters amusement parkland successful Phoenix, Arizona, connected Sunday. 

The man, who identified himself lone arsenic Ricky, was seen making his daring exit from the Desert Storm roller coaster close astatine the apical of the ride, moments earlier its immense drop.

Ricky, who was astatine the parkland with his family, told TODAY the idiosyncratic operating the coaster didn't cheque the thigh bars earlier sending the riders up. As they were ascending, helium heard his barroom click, past felt it unlatch.

'We were close astir to the apical erstwhile that happened, truthful I had a divided determination to either determine to enactment connected the roller coaster and anticipation I enactment successful oregon get out,' helium said.

Ricky chose to vault himself from his spot onto the catwalk to his near moments earlier the coaster plunged down into the 2 360 grade loops ahead.

He past climbed down stairs to get backmost to the ground.

'I'm thankful it was me, due to the fact that if it was 1 of the 10 oregon 11 twelvemonth olds that were going done that, I don't cognize that they would person jumped retired of a moving roller coaster to prevention themselves,' Ricky said.

'Luckily, I'm present to archer my story, and the lone happening that I tin bash is conscionable effort to dispersed awareness,' Ricky added.

DailyMail.com approached Castles N' Coasters for comment. The institution is yet to code the incident.

This aforesaid thrust astatine the aforesaid amusement parkland malfunctioned 3 years agone successful May 2021.

The coaster stalled, leaving 22 passengers hanging 20 feet supra the crushed for 2 hours after it got stuck connected its horizontal loop.

The Phoenix Fire Department had to beryllium called and rescue crews were capable to escort the riders to information utilizing a 30 ft ladder.

Terrifying images showed passengers being carried to information down ladders resting against the tracks.

One authorities implicit successful California, a akin incidental happened a small implicit a week agone at the Knott's Berry Farm amusement park.

The Sol Spin ride was brought to a screeching halt astatine astir 2pm connected a Monday, with thrill seekers being near to dangle until the were evacuated astatine 4:30pm.

A full of 22 radical were stuck successful mid-air. While immoderate were near connected their side, nary 1 was near upside down.

The Sol Spin thrust is made up of six swinging arms that spell arsenic precocious arsenic six stories, and rotate 360 degrees.

After they were rescued, riders were seen stretching their backs and limbs aft being stuck successful uncomfortable positions for hours. 

Some were hunched implicit and struggled to walk, others were placed successful to wheelchairs aft they exited the ride.

Three teens, 2 brothers and their cousin, were visiting the park for a day solemnisation were among those trapped connected the ride.

'It spun 2 times astir and past erstwhile we deed the top, it stopped,' Yandel Espinoza, 14, told KABC.

'Then it unopen down and we got stuck up determination and we started panicking. We felt similar we were gonna die.' 

Espinoza's 13-year-old cousin, Jaedyn Cannon, said: 'We were successful a weird position. We were like, sideways.' 

Cannon's parent told the section quality presumption that Knott's Berry Farm offered them escaped passes to marque up for the incidental but that they turned them down.

'I consciousness similar workers should've fto america cognize similar "hey, I would spell cheque and spot if you person immoderate other kids to marque definite they are safe," and they didn't bash nary of that,' Monique Cannon said.