Around 5.30 pm – just before the closure of the amusement park – the report about the roller coaster that had stopped came in to the fire brigade. A tall crane arrived from Ostend to help the visitors down, but the operation was difficult. Due to the strong wind gusts, the container with which people have to be taken down was unstable for a long time.
It involved nine people, including adults and teenagers The last news† The unfortunate amusement park visitors were stuck upright in one of the roller coaster’s carts. The fire brigade came to the scene to help the people out of the roller coaster, but that turned out not to be so easy.
“At the moment, the first two people are being freed,” said spokesman Kristof Louagie of the Westhoek fire brigade around 10 p.m. All emergency services are ready to receive the people as soon as they are downstairs,” said the fire service. “We were able to talk to people for a while. They all seem okay,” it sounds. The other seven were also rescued around 11:30 PM.
Plopsaland director Steve Van den Kerkhof explained to VTM NIEUWS that the roller coaster came to a standstill soon after the start. It is not yet clear what the exact cause is. Stormy weather was forecast on the coast. In the evening there was even a warning for strong wind gusts, but the weather conditions were monitored as usual, according to Van den Kerkhof.
The ‘Ride to happiness by Tomorrowland’ is a so-called ‘spinning coaster’, in which the carts can rotate freely, on which the creative team of Tomorrowland collaborated. Visitors are shot twice at a speed of 90 kilometers per hour and roll over five times. The attraction, which opened in July last year, has a total length of almost one kilometer and stands 35 meters above the ground at its highest point.