Craziness happening at Carowinds as it appears Fury 325 has an entire support that cracked and isn’t supporting the track at all. This has the possibility of killing the ride for the season but we’ll have to see how it plays out.

  • 312@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    big yikes… that’s no small crack. how does something like this happen?

    • Bob K Mertz@lemm.eeOPM
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      1 year ago

      That’s a very good question… One would think that would have had to start showing signs of cracking before it let go. I’m not sure how often parks do in depth inspections like that but you would think someone should have caught it before it let go.

      Reality is that no one was likely in any danger because the neighbouring supports would still be enough to handle it (in the video you can see very little movement) for a while but I’m still really surprised to see it get to that point.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, surely a crack like that must have been propagating for quite some time to get to that point.