This is the heartstopping moment a little girl is left dangling 330ft above the cliffs after coming to a grinding halt on a zipline in Bali.
Shocking footage shows the girl trying to rock back and forth to move along the zipline cable, with her inching forward very slowly on the Flying Fox zipline on Nusa Penida, a small island located near the southeastern Indonesian island of Bali.
Meanwhile the girl’s terrified and reportedly crying mother, alongside several British tourists, watched on in horror from below as the girl is hanging 330ft over the ocean in the video from July.
Nusa Penida’s police chief told local media that the ‘foreign child’ was stuck on the zipline for about three minutes before she managed to rock herself to the other side. The girl was not injured.
‘The opposing wind direction and light body [didn’t] make the roller move,’ he added.
The incident raised questions over the safety of the nearly 600ft-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 a permit for building a zipline, according to local media.
The head of the local fire service told reporters that Flying Fox zipline the owner built was ‘not suitable’.
Local newspapers are now asking why it took more than a week to close down the zipline after it started operating on July 2 – and why it only happened after a child got stuck on it.
This comes after an Italian woman plunged 60ft to her death on a zipline in Italy’s Bitto Valley when she slipped from her safety harness earlier this year.
Ghizlane Moutahir, 41, died in May after she fell to the ground at the Fly Emotion park in Alpi Orobie at Bema, close to Lake Como, in Italy.
She was approaching the end of the mile-long, high-wire thrill when witnesses said she began to ‘struggle’ and then slipped out of her harness.
Paramedics raced to the scene but there was nothing that could be done and she was pronounced dead. Police and prosecutors have since opened an investigation for ‘negligent homicide by persons unknown’.
Moutahir’s two nieces, who had just completed their flight on the zipline, watched their aunt take her turn on the 60mph ride and were filming when tragedy struck. Investigators are examining the footage taken by the girls.
Her death comes nearly two years after a 39-year-old man was killed while ziplining in northeastern Brazil of Ceara.
Sergio Lima was filming himself sliding down the zip line cable at Canoa Quebra beach in the municipality of Aracati in October 2022 when one of the wood beams collapsed and sent him plunging as his girlfriend watched in horror.
Harrowing footage showed a smiling Lima wowing at the camera when he suddenly plummeted to the sand dunes 15 seconds into the ride.
A second video of the tragic accident that was recorded by his girlfriend at the end of the platform reveals the horrifying moment the zipline cable snapped.
His lawyer accused the operator of the zipline of not burying the wooden support beams properly and therefore causing Lima’s accident.
In 2019, an n father-of-three was ticking off a bucket list item when his ziplining adventure in Brisbane went horribly wrong, killing him and seriously injuring his wife.
Dean Sanderson, 50, from Adelaide, had been on holiday with his wife Shannon, then 48, to visit their son at the army academy, when the pair signed up to go ziplining at the Jungle Surfing Canopy in Cape Tribulation, northeast Queensland.
The pair was on the zipline when a cable snapped, sending husband and wife plummeting about 52ft into the rainforest below.
Witness Mardi Liebelt told at the time that she and her husband had been next to jump on the zipline when the cable snapped, and said she has been unable to shake the shocking scene from her mind.
‘It was quick,’ she said. ‘They got to the middle of the line and the cable literally snapped clean off, then it twanged back up into the air.
‘There was silence, deadly silence, and then the poor lady just started screaming – it’s a scream I never hope to hear again.’