Terrifying moment 22 thrillseekers left dangling in the air for 2.5 hours after Knott’s Berry Farm ride breaks down

DRAMATIC footage has captured the infinitesimal much than 20 thrillseekers were near dangling erstwhile a thrust broke down.

Revelers were stuck connected the Sol Spin thrust astatine Knott’s Berry Farm successful Buena Park, California, for implicit 2 hours connected Monday earlier they were rescued.

Video, obtained by the ABC affiliate KABC, showed passengers leaning arsenic the thrust stopped working.

Aerial shots taken by the web showed passengers suspended successful the aerial arsenic they were strapped into their information harnesses.

But nary were hanging upside down.

Safety crews scrambled to bring the thrillseekers to information and managed to little the ride's arms to the ground.

The Sol Spin has six arms, each rotating astatine 360-degree angles.

The antithetic arms twist and crook independently of each other.

The thrust broke down astatine astir 2pm and each passengers were rescued by 4:30.

However, 2 women were whisked to the hospital arsenic a precaution, according to a parkland spokesperson.

Some riders limped distant from the country of the broken-down ride, according to KABC.

One idiosyncratic was taken distant successful a wheelchair.

Park officials are investigating what caused the thrust to interruption down.

The U.S. Sun has approached Knott’s Berry Farm for comment.

The Sol Spin thrust opened to the nationalist successful 2017, and taxable parkland goers indispensable beryllium astatine slightest 4 and a fractional feet gangly to thrust it.

The thrust malfunction comes aft a rollercoaster, known arsenic The Cyclone, broke down astatine a taxable parkland successful Coney Island, New York.

Officials closed the coaster aft it stalled successful August portion they investigated the incident, but it reopened 2 weeks later.

Investigators revealed a damaged concatenation sprocket caused the thrust to stall out.

Thrillseekers person been going connected The Cyclone since 1927, and the coaster reaches a velocity of 60mph.

The Cyclone is the second-steepest woody rollercoaster successful the world, according to Luna Park officials.

The U.S. Sun reported however dozens of thrillseekers were near dangling erstwhile a taxable parkland thrust successful Portland, Oregon, got stuck mid-air.

Officials aboriginal revealed that nary riders were injured.