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Does anyone have any thoughts on this failure? I'm curious what the typical inspection schedule and process is for a roller coaster like this.

I'm also curious about the root cause of the failure. I have a guess, but it would be interesting to see an actual failure report. I don't expect to see it in the news, though.

Here is a video of the crack moving as roller coaster cars go by.

Someone also got a photo of the crack a week prior before it had fully propagated through the support.

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[–] hawkwind@lemmy.management 3 points 1 year ago

So the coaster goes around the corner and the load gets transferred to those supports? Looks like. There’s more than one support on the bend but the video shows that that support is basically not a part of the structure anymore and it is at the apex of the bend. The supports on either side are now having to tolerate different stresses that they may not have been designed for, same for the track. I find it highly unlikely that this was signed off on. “That’s a redundant support, we’ll fix it when we can?”