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Kennywood closes ride after malfunction

PITTSBURGH (UPI) -- The King Kahuna wasn't ruling as usual at Kennywood Monday -- the Pittsburgh amusement park says the ride is closed after a malfunction trapped 20 riders.

The ride, which features a 40-person seatbed flung 40 feet upward by rotating arms, stopped in an upside-down position Saturday night, trapping the head-over-heels riders 10 feet above the ground. They stayed there for 10 minutes while crews scrambled to get them down, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Monday.

"They were never in any danger at all," Kennywood spokeswoman Mary Lou Rosemeyer told the newspaper. "Obviously, it's uncomfortable to be upside-down for that length of time."

The ride remained closed because technicians hadn't determined what caused the malfunction.

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This news arrived on: 07/07/2008

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