What we call in the nuclear field a “brittle fracture” of the metallic crystalline structure!

I know I am a late responder to this as somehow this news managed to escape me for happening 9 months ago. I mean I am looking at this video in shock at how, not only the operators didn't see this, but the people that inspect the coasters. Generally, it does seem to be a standard that the park's technicians (and / or mechanics) examine every inch of track on the roller coasters before the park opens. Nowadays you have drones to help too. So, it has me wondering at how come this VERY huge, and VERY obvious break went unnoticed. My guess that it probably was like this for a while too. But it is embarrassing to have a park patron point this out? Further, if you notice, that turn around only as one other column supporting the weight of that track. I mean this could have ended up in a MAJOR disaster. What also gets me is that, how come an outside state inspector didn't see this either. Then again, I am assuming that this break was a crack that started small and then propagated over time. However, it is right at the joint of two pipes coming together and it could have been a poor weld joint that started deteriorating slowly and not so obviously and it finally just "popped" that day. I don't know for sure, but if it was the latter, that would just point out shoddy workmanship and that isn't typical of a B&M roller coaster, of which is considered one of the best coaster manufacturers of this day. But still, something like this should have been caught early on. Luckily the fellow that did see this went about it the right way and he went through the channels to make the park shut the ride down. Thankfully, it was caught, and no one was hurt.

Even worse, after being informed about it they let it keep operating for an hour

It won the algorithm lottery this week it seems

They did notice common sense that they looked the other way in favor of making money. By law it’s inspected daily by staff so they would have to be idiots not to notice it was on purpose. After all they take safety very seriously

Facts

He’s not a hero at all

He is a hero to me, because he took an extra step by calling the fire department. Many lives would have been lost if he didn't call the fire department.

​@@hihikatamaricalled him not a hero actually a sarcasm for other people who didnt do their job properly (ride staff etc)

@@RoIIingStoned. Not sure how you can say that. He saw something that saved lives. Reported it. Then when it wasn’t acted on, he reported it again to someone who did act. Not sure what someone who saved dozens of lives is, if not a hero.

These days, being that employee could very well mean losing your job. I bet that was a factor.

@@americanbeauty4015 If you see the video there is no question the ride needs to ber shutdown immediately.

@@GizmoMaltese in all honesty though, the security guard has no authority and it would have fallen on deaf ears. There's no way no other staff hasn't seen it previously.

Within an hour can be a few minutes. It's too vague to assume any failure to act yet. Not that I wouldn't beleive them taking their time, people aren't payed enough to care about anything these days. Edit: finished watching the video. The fire department is the one that got it shut down? Sheeesh common people.

The company doesn't care until it's too late. No need to spend money when you can keep raking it in with people none the wiser

It did, but it also will cost them millions in lost revenue because that ride was probably a huge attraction for them and this news will reduce park visits and revenue during the busiest part of the year...summer time. It's going to take months to properly fix something like that

Better that than having death counts​@@NotMyActualName_

​@@NotMyActualName_So you're saying if that dude had kept his mouth shut they could have saved millions? 😂

@@NotMyActualName_ no way lol, they definitely kept a lot of money in their pockets by having that guy force a shut down instead of owing 20 millions (or more) of dollars to the people that would have eventually been hurt or killed on that defective coaster.

Egotistical owners and managers. Greed.

Yea park security was like “yea ok whatever, we know what we’re doing , take a hike”

Why would the maintenance people care, they don’t get paid enough to survive, so things like this become “not my problem” in todays world sadly !

Or call the SWAT on them.

its safe the guy just shut down the ride now no one can ride it

He's a Hero

final destination 3 vibes

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@BasedSigmaMaleWithVaildTakes bro. People can get on roller coasters like that at age 12

@BasedSigmaMaleWithVaildTakes bruh what 14 year old hasn’t been on a rollercoaster what 🤣

and they didnt act immediately after being told. The man had to call the fire department since they wouldnt do anything at first

Aren't they supposed to inspect the rides? Seems like something that would be hard to miss and probably didn't happen in 1 day.

@@MrBashemit definitely did, things happen quick especially things like this, and this just goes to show how safe the ride is to have been running like this for who knows how long without a big accident. Bravo to the Carowinds team and the engineers who designed this!

That's my thought. Obviously, people engineer redundancy for this exact reason. That doesn't mean you rely on redundancy once you notice a failure. You fix the failure. I imagine the ride operators were just kids and young adults with no common sense. If you notice one support has failed, that automatically stresses the adjacent points. They all need a thorough inspection as well as review of the maintenance and inspection records.

You know nothing about rides or amusement parks. There was literally no danger, the support was already totally detached and no “tragedy” occurred because it has multiple supports on that turn to help manage stress load. The rides manufacturer and carowinds both have no major incidents or deaths in their entire history.

@@RayDLX I'd have to agree with you. Sure the park can potentially be held liable. However, that law only applies, if a tragedy does happen then of course they can be held accountable. There is "failsafe" for a reason which is the multiple supports to prevent the stress load. Otherwise, it's against the law.

@@RayDLXthere shouldn’t be any cracks on any ride none the less you bozo

Dumbasses acting like they knew it existed and didn’t shut it down as soon as they knew

​@@RayDLXa man's hand was severed by a ride at Carowinds and he won a lawsuit

​@@gurditasingh6598you're so cool. tell us more.

This man is very responsible to take ownership of the situation!

@@gurditasingh6598 ur last comment is I’m pregnant…

When I say don’t take no for an answer this is exactly what I mean lol

Crack is wack.

@@BasedSigmaMaleWithVaildTakes wdym

America is going downhill fast.

@@gurditasingh6598 huh??

@@BasedSigmaMaleWithVaildTakes Lmao

Community? 😂

no he didnt save lives, the ride couldve ran if the support next to it cracked. The redundancy of the other supports wouldve held the ride up. The only reason that support is there is to reduce stress on the other supports. And also, it is the tallest fastest longest giga coaster in north america, not the tallest and fastest and longest COASTER in america, learn to read fools

​@@BasedSigmaMaleWithVaildTakesif the 14yr old cleared the height restriction, he could ride.

@@BasedSigmaMaleWithVaildTakes also the 14 year is old enough to know what he/she wants to ride, i definitely wouldn’t put a 8 year old it.

@@BasedSigmaMaleWithVaildTakes lol, anyone can go on a roller coaster.

@@BasedSigmaMaleWithVaildTakesMF you do NOT know how roller coasters work.

If you knew who the insurance carrier was you could notify them too, they'd probably shut the entire park down

Why do you think it was overlooked or neglected as long as it was? Would the whole support eventually have given way?

@@DoubleDogsBFF The break did not happen overnight so i would suspect poor inspection practices. with the G forces against that structure I would expect complete failure at any time

Well you can tell it didnt happen overnight, anyone with even a little sense would know that they use some thick industrialized steel for those rides (theyre supposed to anyway) and that was no crack like he said its a broken/separated support beam and it supposed to withstand alot of weight and movement but if they were doing normal inspections of these rides they would have found that issue way before now or way before it got to be completely separated. So really this is management's failure to have these rides inspected on a normal basis

When a brittle cylinder is twisted it breaks on a 45 degree plane. I think there is metallurgical problem and the coaster bearing on one side then the other is causing a twisting action kinda like a see saw. I think there is a design flaw more than installation. If there is that condition anywhere else on the ride then the whole thing is suspect. All the welds need to be x rated and I would do some corrosion analysis and stress concentration analysis. It could be one bad connection....or it could be a series of flawed designs bolted together.....if so it gets torn down . I hope they truly analyze it and don't try a band aid fix.

@@bmphil3400you’re the only one that has any idea what their talking about here

it's not normal but it's completely safe

@@iamsam9183”completely”? safe? I don’t think so. What is the point of the support beam?

@@MegaFinalRound The reason for the support beam is to distribute stress load and also raise the factor of safety. Coasters have an extremely high factor of safety meaning that if one support were to break, the ride would still be operable for years. I know it's hard to wrap your brain around how it's safe for a track to move that much, but I promise you that that is completely safe. It's probably even making the ride smoother. The track usually moves a significant amount you just dont notice it.

I am engineer, and this is not Minecraft

The tracks shifting is normal, it’s to reduce tension and stiffness; the broken pillar tho isn’t normal

Well, I don't think that you should expert security guards to grasp engineering matters quickly.

It’s also possible the guard was caught in the bureaucracy?

@ The security guards first action after seeing the video should have been to go over to the 16 year old kid thats is operating the ride (educated guess to the operators age, but lots of kids run rides at theme parks sadly) and demand they shut the ride down immediately. Worry about keeping your job later. Bureaucracy shouldnt be a factor.

@@barfnugz I agree. Though we don’t really what actions the security guard did take, just that nothing was effective until the fire brigade was called. If the security guard indeed did nothing, then that is certainly bad.

As a tourist, you don't know where that switch is. The dad did the best anyone can be expected to do.

@@DrBernon you might spot/know, it is at the operators console and at some checkpoints accessable by operators/technicians. Visitors can never reach those areas.

​@gurditasingh6598 we got it after the first 80 times you copy pasted this same comment

​@@fortunamajor7239Get therapy

​@@fortunamajor7239xd

@@fortunamajor7239bruh

Yeah it looks likes it’s going to fall over

2:00 “Carowinds amusement park issued a statement saying “Safety is our top priority…” I’m sure they genuinely think that. Judge people - and companies - by what they do, not by what they say. It doesn’t look good for them.

My man the security guard was useless as always.

Definitely…

*mrmrgaming* Yeah? What about a million and one years?

Even then it still took an hour! That’s insane and how the staff didn’t just shut it down is crazy.

I can't help but think the amusement park could have wanted to make a bit more money before shutting down the ride (after learning about the safety issue).

@@GarthVonMaranerthey would gain the reputation of death park and lose their customers if they killed people on this ride..

@@latinokid33 😉

@@GarthVonMaranerThis isn’t some fair where they charge people on each ride they go on. Everyone there either has season or day passes, meaning they already paid. This shows that you probably don’t know much about how most amusement parks operate.

He didn’t save anybody the coaster coulda been like that for over a year before anything happened also I got on that ride when I was 10

B&M over engineers their rides so tragedy doesn’t happen.

​@latinokid33 dude gtfo of here with your random nonsense. This is a story about a roller coaster and you're over here talking about gun laws.

@@latinokid33wat

@@latinokid33The irony of calling us morons when you can’t even spell it right

@@latinokid33 goofy

I spend more time enjoying the weld bead than the actual rides lol

Do cracks like that just happen all of a sudden or do they start small and get bigger over time?

@@jaystarr6571 im gonna bed some whale went on the ride an it cracked

@@jaystarr6571 Small and get bigger, just like material fatigue in aircrafts. But it looks more broken than a big crack.

Keep it up!

Exactly

I wondered how long that crack had been there? And how come the staffs and anybody did not notice it?

@@nwo2coolit had been their for about a week before it was noticed

That's not something anyone would notice unless they're actually looking. I don't blame staff, also it's cedar fair. Cedar Fair will not let a rollercoaster derail. SIX FLAGS on the other hand ONLY MAINTAINS the rides at certain parks though they're all the same ride at every park. But they barely maintain them.

What’s disappointing is the fact that by LAW, they’re supposed to inspect the rollercoaster track every single damn morning before the ride even opens. They need to fire the inspection team or find out if this was a possible terroirst attack.

NO... I TOOK AN HOUR... AFTER... HE CALLED THE FIRE DEPARTMENT...

The caster said that statement with the tone of get a load of this nonsense

That's how capitalism works. You raised this monster.

Money is our top priority.

Simple mistake. 'Safety' and 'profit' almost sound the same.

It's like that Final Destination movie.😅

​@@gurditasingh6598As someone who studies drugs, keep injecting some you totally won't die.

literally nobody would have got hurt or died without that one support the coaster is designed so if something like that does happen nothing bad will happen so stop talking about subjects you know literally nothing about

​@@gurditasingh6598are you 9 or something?

​@@oogabooga6411True but it's not good to risk it, plus people will see it and rate the place a 1 star review and won't return because THEY think it's unsafe.

@@oogabooga6411Doesn’t matter. Having a huge crack like that on one of your coasters at an amusement park, doesn’t make the place look good on their part. One wrong move, and that entire roller coaster cart could’ve went flying off the rails. Better safe then sorry.

I watched another video about this and a structural engineer said that 4 or 5 more rides on that coaster and it would have broken the track itself sending the cars hurling off to the ground and every person would have been decapitated and disemboweled

@@oogabooga6411 So what happens when the other support breaks?

NOBODY IGNORED HIS REPORT!!! It was slow to shutdown because HE DIDN'T TELL THE RIDE OPERATORS!!!! He wasted so much time talking to the completely wrong people. He needed to go straight to the station and tell the crew, and the ride would be shutdown right there and then.

@@CouchPotator A security guard is also an ambassador of the theme park. In a case like this, any park employee, whether it is a security guard, a gartner or a mascot in a furry costume, needs to pay attention to this information provided by a visitor. They need to have brain cells enough to realize the potential implications of this impending structural failure and make sure to forward this information to the relevant recipient within the theme park. It can not be the responsibility of the guest to navigate the organization. It wasn't even the responsibility of the guest to conduct structural inspections to begin with, no matter how glaring they may be. In other words, the security guard in question must be fired to failing to understanding the significance of this information and failing to act.

@@armchair_expert Maybe he should, or maybe the extra bounces of communication needed to get from the guard to security to operations to the station took a long time and the guy only THOUGHT nothing was happening.

​@CouchPotator well we found the security guard

​@@CouchPotator bro, he could radio them or literally just walk over to the ride to verbally tell them. He's a guard. It's not like he'd have to wait in line for an hour to talk to the ride operators. The maximum amount of time it would take is the length of the walk. There's no reason it would take over an hour to get such important information to them

there is if they dont look

I am pretty sure the park management already knew about this flaw. To save the maintaining cost they just wanted to ignore it.

Thas crazy 🤯

@@RuLeZ1988 They might have planned to let the insurance company pay for a new Roller Coaster, after a tragedy would have happened. For the management it would have been cheaper to let some people die than to fix it on own cost.

@@pakabe8774 Very well thought.

And because he wasn't directly involved it can't get him the curse

Death: "Maaaaaaan...yur ruinin' my fun."

The great thing about this reference, is in my college OSHA class we literally watched clips from the film series to illustrate how terribly the characters responded to crisis situations. XD

@@dreamcanvas5321 lmao that sounds great

​​@@dreamcanvas5321Did you guys make like a dissertation/analysis on what they *should've* done? Cause honestly i would be interested in the conclusions a whole class came to watching these idiotic characters

OMG The worst part is that they dare to issue the blatant lie that safety is their top priority!

Nobody inspects nothing restaurants events amusement parks trains planes

Literal misinformation, stop saying nonsense when you know nothing about what happened

Profit first!

This happened after inspection

@@pbs36 right until they get sued, which they obviously try to avoid. Think for more than 3 seconds first

When final destination comes to life but it's not at the race track. 😮 That rides coo tho. Yes, I am gp. And no where in this comment did I state that I'm an engineer. Just stating, just to be stating.. 👋. I feel like I need long nails now

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Youd be surprised with the stuff that happens at the airport… saw some coworkers almost send a plane out with the luggage doors still open… everyone wouldve died 😭

Uh, I don't think that could be true given the perilous nature of early Rollercoasters but I could be wrong?

Metal with that much mass isn't going to have an appreciable change of temp from a roller coaster rolling round it every 5-10 mins

Fun fact! Ride designers account for fatigue, and design the structure to stay within the region of "infinite life" (typically with a substantial factor of safety on top of that)

Temperature is not relevant here, look up “material fatigue”

@@Omsip123 cyclic loading

Nothing would have happened since it’s over engineered to last like that for years believe it or not

YAY FREE MONEY FOR ME. If he told the people that were actually running the ride, it would have been closed immediately.

they could be paying millions in fines so they owe him millions to be honest

Wouldn't be worth getting a free pass to unsafe rides.

That would be like finding a cockroach in your meal at a restaurant and they give you a free gift certificate for another meal there!

@@kingtomador5655no they don’t. He deserves at least just their cheapest year pass and yeah

I'm not sure I'd want to go back, even for free.

Yes. He's a great example of not giving in to "bystander effect".

@@DeclanMBrennanthank youuu!!

Absolutely he should

No

Like he said, he's not heroic, he just saw something and called the real hero's.

Probably the time of firefighters arriving

@@sergiofonseca2285 yes, but the supervisors in the park should have closed the ride till the inspection.

That is just 2 employees it is still safe if you check the records compared to a car millions of people go on and barely any die

Safety no, profit yes

not sure if security has the rights to shut down a ride could be wrong i think you have to either go to the ride operators or contact the management

@@newhyperspace43 i'd say with confidence that on the operatrs/security contracts there is written that if they deem to be a risk for the park customers, they have all the right and authority to shut it down. this sounds more like an average management moment "it's always been like that in the last 2 years Billy, the engeneer said its fine, do you know how much money we lose by shutting it down on a day like this?" pretty average.

Nothing would have happened

literally nobody would have got hurt or died without that one support the coaster is designed so if something like that does happen nothing bad will happen so stop talking about subjects you know literally nothing about

​@eelovfx9200 Take your own advice! If the strut wasn't needed, it wouldn't be there. Besides, the people who inspected it and *actually* know what they're talking about deemed it unsafe enough to close the ride, so... You're wrong.

Would've taken longer for the ride to be shut down if he hadn't called the Fire Department to report it.

Right? That’s so dangerous. That’s not even just a small crack, the whole beam is broken in half

​@@bethanyoneal5789literally nobody would have got hurt or died without that one support the coaster is designed so if something like that does happen nothing bad will happen so stop talking about subjects you know literally nothing about

@@eelovfx9200 so, you would be okay with your kids riding it knowing the crack is there because it's 'designed' for problems like this. you'd put your faith and trust in the people who designed something that failed assuming it was constructed to their specs, or the construction of people who designed something that broke.

@@eelovfx9200 im pretty sure a coaster made of heavy metal needs supports for it to not come crashing to the ground

Just a bolt is not much. It could of been from one of the trains or wheel assemblies but it’s still good you reported it

​@@Pianissemoa bolt from a train could cause the train to derail... that's a HUGE deal because it could kill people

@@kaitlinreichert606 it depends from the manufacturer. Generally 1 bolt should cause the ride to get an inspection but can’t exactly cause it to derail the entire train.

You did your duty. Thank you.

@@Pianissemo Without knowing where 1 bolt came from.. it might be not much.. or it could be something vital. Not worth the gamble of injury / death / lawsuites to take a chance...

At least I'm not the only one😅

😂😂

Same

So the thumbnail is useless, okay.

@@zandatsu07 i thought the crack was just one of the mechanicals and i was just trying to find the drugs

They never let the experts outside either.

@@gurditasingh6598sush

Well said

He didn’t safe any lives it could have operated fine like that it’s just that the media is overreacting

@@gurditasingh6598 Get Help!

@@C0astinG4mer Grow Up!!

@@HerriCaine ok than tell me why you think this is such a big deal then. You need to grow tf up if you actually believe everything they tell you

While there was a lot of negligence from the park, nobody was in super big danger, rollercoasters tend to use more supports than needed to help reduce stress on the supports. However if this wasn’t caught for like a week then it could have potentially been pretty bad

what you described it quite literally impossible 😂

if you know anything about physics and how roller coasters work, then you would know that no one was in danger here. The ride is built with redundancies to keep the ride up and perfectly safe even in event of something like this. That support could be removed and the ride could run.

I wonder if those kids operating the rides got harassed

Nothing can happen. Just the track flexing more than usual

Thank you for your professional opinion. Yeah you're right, I'm sure nothing can happen. In fact, I'm sure they left it unfixed because after all, nothing can happen.

@@mattconway8851 just saying, it’s still a shame how carowinds didn’t notice this.

@@Who-lj8mb finally, someone who’s also informed.

if you know anything about physics and how roller coasters work, then you would know that no one was in danger here. The ride is built with redundancies to keep the ride up and perfectly safe even in event of something like this. That support could be removed and the ride could run

No he saved no lives cuz it’s has sway and redundancy which means it could have operated like that for a while believe it or not. Just informing the masses about the medias dirty lies

Parks fault 100% Carowinds executives about to get axed.

@@rmasterstudios Exactly!

Crack formed after inspection