A little gorilla glue and it’ll be good as new.
The scariest part of this is that they continued running the roller coaster AFTER the crack was discovered and reported. Imagine 30+ people being flung off that thing if it had completely come apart.
Charlotte, NC
FNC left a bit out...
And the park has some regulatory history...
I’d like to see a list of their political contributions.
A little Flex Tape and it’s good...
The crack was through-and-through. You can see daylight at a point in the video.
Kinda resembles the fracture on the Mississippi River Bridge in Memphis/West Memphis.
Horribly designed. The angled support leg coming up from the lower left and welded to the column...that joint as right at the point of maximum stress when the coaster cars come by.
Geezus...
My son and granddaughter were on this thing two or three times, just last Thursday! They said it was awesome (and they survived).
By the way, this is not a crack, it is a fatigue fracture total failure. The pylon holding the track section is completely severed. If you look at the video as the car passes by, you can see daylight thru the fracture. The park needs to reevaluate the entire structure. A fatigue fracture like this one may point to a serious flaw in the overall design of the ride. It may also point to substandard material used in its construction. Chinese made steel? Just speculating.... No, I’m not an engineer but you don’t really have to be to recognize poor design or materials failure.
Thatâs a wee bit bigger than a âcrack.â Thatâs a total failure of that member. Yikes!
The design obviously has a huge margin of safety.
It took a park visitor to spot that? The Carowinds people donât do daily visual inspections?
The video is mesmerizing.
Something is VERY wrong with the engineering of this structure’s supports. The ride should be condemned, and the firm which designed it held strictly liable.
Made with water pipe?
Who designed this thing? Stockton Rush?