{"id":317740,"date":"2025-11-30T03:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/317740\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T03:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:06:13","slug":"terrifying-sky-dining-malfunction-in-kerala-leaves-family-dangling-on-southern-skies-aerodynamics-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/317740\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrifying sky-dining malfunction in Kerala leaves family dangling on Southern Skies Aerodynamics platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A family\u2019s sky-high dinner turned into a harrowing ordeal after a mechanical failure left them dangling 45 meters above the ground at a popular sky-dining attraction in India.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The family of four \u2014 including two young children \u2014 were rescued on Friday after a crane fault abruptly froze the suspended dining platform mid-air in Kerala.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">They remained stranded for more than two hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-3mk41m-StyledText eze0guv9\">Sign up to The Nightly&#8217;s newsletters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1r9pdr5-StyledSubText eze0guv8\">Get the first look at the digital newspaper, curated daily stories and breaking headlines delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>By continuing you agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/thenightly.com.au\/subscription-terms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sevenwestmedia.com.au\/privacy-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Muhammed Safwan, 31, his wife, Thoufeena, 25, and their children had travelled from Kozhikode for the experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Fire and rescue crews from Munnar and Adimali arrived about 4pm, scaling ropes to reach the stalled structure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Under the guidance of emergency workers, the family were forced to make the nerve-shredding descent down the ropes. The children and Thoufeena were brought down first, followed by Safwan and 28-year-old restaurant employee Haripriya. All were safely on the ground by 4.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A local news organisation, <a class=\"css-hwy1qg-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thesouthfirst.com\/\">South First<\/a>, shared footage of the terrifying rescue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Rescuers placed a safety net beneath the crane as a precaution during the operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Authorities later confirmed a suspected hydraulic failure in the crane caused the sudden breakdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Witnesses told local outlets the group had been stuck since 1.30pm, with residents eventually alerting authorities after management failed to call for help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A staff member insisted there was no panic on the platform, saying \u201cstaff are trained for such emergencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The sky-dining venture, launched by Southern Skies Aerodynamics, is part of the region\u2019s adventure-tourism push, offering panoramic meals high above the hill district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Devikulam Subcollector VM Arya said the operation had no official guidelines governing such facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A report has been sought from a village officer who raised concerns about the frightening incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family\u2019s sky-high dinner turned into a harrowing ordeal after a mechanical failure left them dangling 45 meters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40,1720],"class_list":{"0":"post-317740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories","14":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}