X Scream Stratosphere Accident

If you look at any top ten lists of the scariest rides on the planet, many are shocked to see that las vegas hosts three of them—they are insanity, big shot, and x-scream—all of them are at the strat. X-scream is a ride at the top of the strat skypod in las vegas, nevada. Nov 19, 2005x-scream is open again.

Six japanese tourists were on the x-scream when the power went out. Nevada power said wind entangled power and telephone lines causing the outage and not a car accident. Jul 5, 2004with its main hydraulic cylinder extended, x-scream plunges riders over the edge of the stratosphere tower, where they are hurled toward the ground, nearly 1000 ft below.

Try not to scream when you go over the edge — you don't want to scare the other riders! Jun 2, 2014then, in november of the same year, a power outage left six japanese tourists similarly suspended in space on x-scream, hanging off the side of the tower with an uninterrupted birds-eye.