*July 15, 2007 -- Updated 1129 GMT (1929 HKT)

*Christian music festival marred by death on bungee ride*

    * Story Highlights
    * Ride shut down after 4:45 p.m. accident; festival resumed about
7:30 p.m.
    * Witness says he heard snapping sound before woman hit the ground
    * Woman fell 40-50 feet on the Air Glory, a bungee-like ride, police say
    * Festival music became more mellow after 9:30 p.m. announcement of
death

OSHKOSH, Wisconsin (AP) -- A woman attending a Christian festival died
Saturday after plunging about 45 feet from a bungee-like amusement ride.

Workers at the Lifest 2007 event shut down the Air Glory ride after the
accident, which occurred about 4:45 p.m. A prayer service was held at 7
p.m. and the music festival resumed about 7:30 p.m.

The woman, whose name and age was not released by Oshkosh police, was
pronounced dead at a local hospital several hours after the accident.

Lifest is an annual Christian music festival that also features rides
and sports.

An announcement about the death was made from a stage just after 9:30
p.m. The music continued but with more mellow worship songs.

Oshkosh Police Sgt. Todd Wrage said few details were available Saturday
night.

"What we do know, from the reports we've gotten, is that she apparently
fell 40 to 50 feet," Wrage said.

The Air Glory ride is described as a ride whose mechanism is similar to
bungee-jumping.

Brian Childers of Kenosha was in line for the ride and witnessed the fall.

Two people went up in the ride, and when they pulled the release
Childers said he heard a snapping sound. One person fell and the other
remained swinging in the ride, he said.

"(The person) hit the ground and she was not moving at all," Childers
told the Oshkosh Northwestern newspaper.