Fatal Attraction (9 photos)

Every day, those who want to test themselves on the strength of this most extreme attraction of America, lining up in long lines under the walls of the hotel-skyscraper "Stratosphere» ...
It was here, on the roof, "stratosphere" in Las Vegas roller set fire X-Scream - the highest attraction in the United States ...





Its height, together with the height of the building is 330 meters ...



But this is not its main feature ... Those who want to ride with the wind on the roller-Coster was not insured he extreme situations with power outages and equipment failure, which happened more than once ...



Since 2005, Japanese tourists stayed there for several hours, like bats, at an altitude of 300 meters ...



At that moment, when the Japanese came down from the hills, on the nearest street accident occurred - one of the cars crashed into a hotel a transformer, causing a short circuit. Electrical amusement out of order, and tourists hovered above the ground on a bend ...



He stopped as the express elevator Big Shot, which is like a rocket shoots passengers up along the antenna tower and ride Insanity, which is a panel like the crane boom with armchairs, rocking the audience fearless ...



The supply of electricity was restored only after half an hour. Frightened tourists removed from the roller-fire. Affected were not among them, but had guests from Japan in a state of shock to a hospital ...



The incident caused alarm for two reasons. Firstly, support personnel X-Scream, for some reason, did not use the emergency manual control system, allowing automatic failover to return back to train with trolleys ...



In addition, the rescue team has caused the alarm, arrived on the scene just after 1 hour and 20 minutes ...



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