Video captured the exact moment one side of the elastic snapped on a slingshot ride, also known as a reverse bungee, at Luna Park, at Cap d'Agde.
After the slingshot catapulted its passengers into the air, the elastic snapped on the way down, violently jolting the cable as the crowd below gasped and cried out in shock. The cable car then continued to bob up and down, smashing into the stanchion to the right of the screen before eventually coming to a stop.
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Paramedics were soon on the scene, with a 24-year-old woman suffering from a broken leg. The other person on the ride was not seriously injured. Theme park officials blamed the accident on a "manufacturing defect" in the elastic. An investigation has been launched.
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What looks to be a similar ride at Mount Olympus in the Wisconsin Dells had the same problem, only the elastic snapped before it was launched, fortunately.
I've ridden a few slingshots, but they were all powered by massive springs and steel cables. There's no way in Hades I'd get on one like this.
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