This is the heartbreaking moment a girl is left dangling 330ft above a cliff after coming to a screeching halt on a zipline in Bali.
Shocking footage shows the girl trying to swing back and forth to move along the zipline cable, as she moves very slowly on the Flying Fox zipline in Nusa Penida, a small island located near the island of Bali in southeastern Indonesia.
Meanwhile, the girl’s terrified and apparently crying mother, along with several British tourists, watched in horror from below as the child dangled 330 feet above the ocean in the July video.
The Nusa Penida police chief told local media that the “foreign girl” was trapped on the zipline for about three minutes before she managed to swing to the other side. The girl was not injured.
‘The opposite direction of the wind and the light body did not cause the roller to move,’ he added.
Shocking footage shows the girl attempting to swing back and forth to move along the zipline cable as she moves very slowly along the Flying Fox zipline in Nusa Penida, a small island located near the island of Bali in southeastern Indonesia.
The girl’s terrified and apparently crying mother, along with several British tourists, watched in horror from below as the child dangled 330 feet above the ocean in the July video.
Nusa Penida’s police chief told local media that the “foreign girl” was trapped on the zipline for about three minutes, telling reporters that the opposite direction of the wind and the girl’s low weight prevented the reel on the cable from working.
The incident raised questions about the safety of the nearly 600-foot-long zipline in Nusa Penida, which has since been closed, according to local media.
Local police revealed that while the owner had permission to establish a “beach attraction” near the island’s popular Diamond Beach, he did not have permission to build a zipline, according to local media.
The local fire service chief told reporters the Flying Fox zipline built by the owner was “not suitable”.
Local newspapers are now questioning why it took more than a week to close the zipline after it began operating on July 2, and why it only happened after a child got caught on it.
This comes after an Italian woman fell 60ft to her death on a zipline in Italy’s Bitto Valley when she slipped out of her safety harness earlier this year.
Ghizlane Moutahir, 41, died in May after falling to the ground at the Fly Emotion park in Alpi Orobie in Bema, near Lake Como, Italy.
He was nearing the end of the thrilling mile-long tightrope race when, witnesses said, he began to “struggle” and then slipped out of his harness.
Paramedics rushed to the scene but nothing could be done and the woman was declared dead. Police and prosecutors have opened an investigation into “negligent homicide by persons unknown”.
Moutahir’s two nieces, who had just completed their zipline flight, watched their aunt take her turn on the 96km/h course and were filming when the tragedy occurred. Investigators are examining the footage taken by the girls.
His death comes nearly two years after a 39-year-old man died while ziplining in northeast Brazil from Ceará.
Sergio Lima was filming himself sliding down the zipline cable at Canoa Quebra beach in the municipality of Aracati in October 2022 when one of the wooden beams collapsed and made him fall while his girlfriend watched in horror.
Sergio Lima was filming himself sliding down the zipline cable at Canoa Quebra beach in the municipality of Aracati in October 2022 when one of the wooden beams collapsed and made him fall while his girlfriend watched in horror.
Harrowing footage showed a smiling Lima looking into the camera when he suddenly collapsed on the sand dunes 15 seconds into the race.
A second video of the tragic accident, which was recorded by his girlfriend at the end of the platform, reveals the horrific moment when the zipline cable snapped.
His lawyer accused the zipline operator of failing to properly bury the wooden support beams and therefore causing the Lima accident.
In 2019, an Australian father of three was checking an item off his bucket list when his zipline adventure in Brisbane went horribly wrong: he died and his wife was seriously injured.
Dean Sanderson, 50, from Adelaide, was on holiday with his wife Shannon, then 48, to visit their son at the army academy when the couple signed up to go ziplining at the Jungle Surfing Canopy at Cape Tribulation, north-east Queensland.
The couple were ziplining when a cable snapped, sending the husband and wife plummeting 16 metres into the rainforest.
Witness Mardi Liebelt told MailOnline at the time that she and her husband had been next on the zipline when the cable snapped, and said she has been unable to get the shocking scene out of her mind.
“It was fast,” he said. “They got halfway down the line and the cable literally snapped and then went back up into the air.”
“There was silence, a deadly silence, and then the poor lady began to scream. It is a scream I hope I never hear again.”