Tim Samson, the brand manager for Morey's Mariner Landing Pier, said the Ferris wheel is 156 feet high. He did not know where Jones was on the wheel when she fell.
He said the park was packed with visiting school children, and many would have been in place to see what happened.
Amusement park officials closed the facility for Friday, while officials from the New Jersey carnival amusement department inspected the wheel, built in 1985.
Samson told Reuters one of the attractions of the wheel is that riders get a good view of the adjacent beach and the ocean as they go around and around.
Reuters
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