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kersploosh@sh.itjust.works

Thoughts on the Fury 365 roller coaster's cracked support? (media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by kersploosh@sh.itjust.works to c/engineering@sh.itjust.works

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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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[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Not insane at all. I hope an NDT contractor is going to get some business out of this incident.