Supergirl Sky Flight Ride Stops During Rain Storm at Six Flags Mexico
Theme park visitors in Mexico City were given the scare of a lifetime while flying through the air like superheroes. The incident happened on August 18 at Six Flags Mexico; if you’re unfamiliar with the brand, Six Flags is a series of theme parks throughout North America with rides, merchandise, and other attractions based on Warner Bros. properties. Six Flags Over Texas was the first park, with Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey, Six Flags Great America in Illinois, Six Flags Magic Mountain in California, and many more. Six Flags Mexico was originally Reino Aventura until Six Flags acquired it in 1999. Like other Six Flags parks, Six Flags Mexico has rides based on DC Comics superheroes, like the famous Batman The Ride.
It was on one of these where the harrowing incident took place. The ride was once called the Sky Screamer, but it was rebranded Supergirl Sky Flight in 2018; it is a tower that stands 242 feet tall and swings guests around in a series of carts attached to the top of the structure at 40 miles per hour to mimic Supergirl flying through the air. The ride is said to give guests a nice view of Mexico City as they whip through the sky. On August 18, according to Fox Weather, severe weather caused the ride to stop suddenly, leaving parkgoers stuck suspended in the air as intense rain pelted down. Omar Hernández Medrano, one of the guests caught on Supergirl Sky Flight during the storm, recorded a video of the ordeal that he shared with Storyful, which you can see below:
Riders were stuck dangling over Six Flags Mexico after a Sky Screamer ride stalled during a storm, pelting them with heavy rain and wind. pic.twitter.com/nZcBk0Ygo4
— AccuWeather (@accuweather) August 26, 2024
Mr. Medrano says he and the other passengers were stuck on Supergirl Sky Flight for ten minutes. Fortunately, Six Flags Mexico reports that no one was injured, and Supergirl Sky Flight was up and running again shortly – though I doubt anyone got back on after that. It had to have been frightening for parkgoers sitting there helpless in a broken ride, not to mention with heavy rain falling on them. You can hear people screaming in the video; the height requirement for riding Supergirl Sky Flight is 1.12 meters, which equates to about 3 feet, 7 inches (if accompanied by a parent), so there could well have been children on the ride at the time. (Mr. Medrano doesn’t specify if there were.) It’s enough to put kids off theme parks for life.
Based on my experience at Great Adventure (which I have to reach back a ways for, as I haven’t been to a theme park in a long time), the rides at Six Flags are designed to feel a bit more death-defying than those at places like Disney World or Universal Studios. I recall roller coasters like The Great American Scream Machine and Batman and Robin: The Chiller taking you on wild rides at high speed and some others flying you through the air. I took one look at Kingda Ka and went back to the snack bar because that wasn’t happening. I can’t imagine being caught on something like that in a rainstorm when the ride stops in mid-air; the worst I had was the intense headache from getting my head banged around in the little rocket they put you in on The Chiller. (I went on a high school trip to Great Adventure and remember my math teacher expressing her displeasure with that aspect of The Chiller.) But, thankfully, everyone made it off of Supergirl Sky Flight okay, and they’ll have a great story to tell at parties now.
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