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Last week, as many as 150 passengers found themselves stranded for two hours inside one of the pods on the world’s largest Ferris wheel in Las Vegas.

The 167-metre tall contraption, on the world-famous Las Vegas strip, was built in 2014.

Due to a technical fault thought to have been caused by a “connectivity issue” with one of its cabins, the attraction stopped working during the wee hours of September 18.

A few of the passengers managed to share scenes of being stuck on social media, with one saying that it was “really traumatic” because they thought they were going to die.

Thankfully, nobody did die as fire responders and engineers worked tirelessly from around midnight to 2AM to rescue those trapped and get the ride moving again.

Caesars Entertainment, which owns and operates the High Roller Observation Wheel, gave a statement to The Independent:

“The High Roller Observation Wheel was stopped during its rotation on Friday night, due to a network connectivity issue involving one of the cabins.”

“Approximately 150 passengers were aboard the wheel at the time. Engineers resolved the network issue within approximately 90 minutes, the wheel’s rotation resumed, and all passengers safely disembarked and received refunds.”

But the passengers were still left with psychological scars after the ordeal.

One TikTok user, @esmyyyyyy, spoke of the experience:

[She] said she was in a cabin that began to tilt at an alarming angle, causing her and people sharing her cabin to call 911 because “we thought we were going to die”.

“So first, all the TVs and everything shut down, so we didn’t know what was going on,” she said in footage that has been seen more than 1,7m times [1,8 million views now], “and then it started tilting, and it wouldn’t stop.

“Obviously, it was like, really scary. I thought I was going to die,” she went on. ”Like, I genuinely thought I was going to die, so I started calling everyone I knew and told them I was going to die. So it’s like really traumatic.”

Her video has been viewed almost 13 million times:

@esmyyyyyyReply to @livelyhippie and the fact that they acted like nothing happened after we got off is what got me mad♬ Oh No – Kreepa

She also has other videos answering the “5 million questions” that everyone has, explaining how she had to use ice packs afterwards to heal body aches from being in an uncomfortable, unnatural position for so long.

Here’s a report from 8NewsNow with further TikTok footage:

There’s also footage shared by@loveeemartha, showing people sliding down the pod and up against the glass window:

@loveeemarthaReply to @tieranslade♬ original sound – loveeemartha

Scary for sure, but not as bad as that “super death” rollercoaster in Japan that actually broke bones.

[source:independent]