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Advertisement Riders get stuck on Worlds of Fun's towering SteelHawk Ride takes people up 300 feet, spins them around Share Shares Copy Link Copy

People riding Worlds of Fun's new SteelHawk ride found themselves stuck Thursday night.VIDEOLisa Bowman and her son were on the ride at the time. She sent us some video she took with her cellphone just after the ride got stuck on the way to the top.Bowman said they were stranded for 24 minutes.Maintenance crews repaired the problem. No one was hurt.Worlds of Fun officials told KMBC that a safety sensor went off and disengaged the ride. Officials would not elaborate on that.The ride was in operation on Friday.SteelHawk vaults riders 300 feet into the air and spins them around eight times in about a minute at the very top.In its previous life, the ride was called Windseeker at a California amusement park. Park officials shut it down after riders were twice stranded at the top. It never reopened because the park did not replace the ladders to meet safety standards in California.But the ladders are legal in several other states, including Missouri.A Missouri state inspection was conducted on the ride on June 27th, and got a satisfactory inspection from the state, KMBC's Mike Mahoney reported.Logan Nolting, Carroll, Iowa:"I feel comfortable," amusement park attendee Logan Nolting of Carroll, Iowa, told Mahoney. "I think they're safe. Every once in a while you'll hear of an incident like last night maybe, that something doesn't go properly. For the most part they are safe."SteelHawk opened about two weeks ago at the Worlds of Fun park.11833402