This is the heartbreaking moment a little girl is left dangling 100 metres above cliffs in Bali after grinding to a halt on a cable car.
Shocking footage shows the girl trying to sway back and forth to move along the zipline cable as she moves very slowly on the Flying Fox zipline on Nusa Penida, a small island near the southeastern Indonesian island of Bali.
Meanwhile, the girl’s terrified and reportedly crying mother, along with several British tourists, watched in horror as the girl was seen hanging 100 metres above the ocean in a July video.
Nusa Penida police chief told local media that the “foreign child” was stuck on the zipline for about three minutes before she managed to swing herself to the other side. The girl was not injured.
“The opposing wind direction and light weight did not cause the roller to move,” he added.
Shocking footage shows the girl trying to sway back and forth to move along the zipline cable as she moves very slowly forward on the Flying Fox zipline on Nusa Penida, a small island near the southeastern Indonesian island of Bali.
The girl’s terrified and reportedly crying mother, along with several British tourists, watched in horror from the ground as the girl hung 100 metres above the ocean, as seen in the July video.
Nusa Penida police chief told local media that the “foreign child” was stuck on the cable car for about three minutes. He told reporters that the wind direction and the girl’s light weight caused the roller on the cable to fail.
The incident raised questions about the safety of the nearly 180-meter-long zipline in Nusa Penida, which has since been closed, according to local media.
According to local police, the owner had permission to build a “beach attraction” near the island’s popular Diamond Beach, but not to build a cable car, local media reported.
The head of the local fire department told reporters that the Flying Fox cable car built by the owner was “not suitable”.
Local newspapers are now questioning why it took more than a week for the cable car to be closed after it first opened on July 2 – and why this only happened after a child became trapped.
This comes after an Italian woman plunged 18 metres from a cable car in Italy’s Bitto Valley earlier this year after slipping out of her seat belt.
Ghizlane Moutahir, 41, died in May after falling to the ground at the Fly Emotion park in Alpi Orobie near Bema, near Lake Como in Italy.
She was near the end of the mile-long tightrope walking competition when, according to witnesses, she began to “struggle” and then slipped out of her harness.
Paramedics rushed to the scene, but there was nothing that could be done and she was pronounced dead. Police and prosecutors have now launched an investigation into ’caused death by persons unknown’.
Moutahir’s two nieces, who had just completed their zipline flight, watched their aunt take her turn on the 60mph ride and were filming when tragedy struck. Detectives are examining footage shot by the girls.
Her death comes nearly two years after a 39-year-old man died while ziplining in northeastern Brazil from Ceará.
Sergio Lima filmed himself sliding down a cable car on the beach of Canoa Quebra in the municipality of Aracati in October 2022, when one of the wooden beams collapsed and he fell down, while his girlfriend watched in horror.
Sergio Lima filmed himself sliding down a cable car on the beach of Canoa Quebra in the municipality of Aracati in October 2022, when one of the wooden beams collapsed and sent him plummeting to the ground, while his girlfriend watched in horror
Shocking footage shows Lima smiling at the camera as he suddenly plunges into the sand dunes 15 seconds into the ride.
A second video of the tragic accident, captured by his girlfriend at the end of the platform, shows the terrifying moment the cable car snapped.
His lawyer accused the cable car operator of not properly burying the wooden support beams, thereby causing the accident in Lima.
In 2019, an Australian father of three checked off an item on his bucket list when his ziplining adventure in Brisbane went horribly wrong, killing him and seriously injuring his wife.
Dean Sanderson, 50, from Adelaide, was on holiday with his wife Shannon, then 48, to visit their son at the military academy when the couple signed up to go ziplining at the Jungle Surfing Canopy in Cape Tribulation, north-east Queensland.
The couple were on the zipline when a cable snapped, sending the couple plummeting 52 feet (16 meters) into the rainforest.
Witness Mardi Liebelt told MailOnline at the time that she and her husband were next to jump on the cable when it snapped. She said she still can’t get the shocking scene out of her mind.
“It happened fast,” she said. “They got to the middle of the line and the cable literally snapped completely and then it shot back up into the air with a bang.”
‘There was a silence, a deathly silence, and then the poor woman began to scream. It is a scream I hope I never hear again.’