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

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…