Space Daily September 15, 2026 • 00:30

A park visitor at Carowinds spotted a crack in a steel support column on the Fury 325 roller coaster before the ride's inspectors caught it. The ride stayed shut for more than a month while engineers checked the rest of the structure. - Space Daily

A park visitor at Carowinds spotted a crack in a steel support column on the Fury 325 roller coaster before the ride's inspectors caught it. The ride stayed shut for more than a month while engineers checked the rest of the structure. - Space Daily

A visitor's smartphone camera caught a structural flaw that trained inspectors missed, raising urgent questions about how theme parks monitor safety on their most popular attractions.

Phones were out, most of them pointed up at the trains cresting the first hill. One of those phones caught something a maintenance walk-through had not: a steel column near the base of the ride, crac… [+5202 chars]

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