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1981 structural collapse in Kansas City, Missouri / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On July 17, 1981, two walkways collapsed at the Hyatt Regency Kansas City hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, one directly above the other. They crashed onto a tea dance being held in the hotel's lobby, killing 114 and injuring 216.[3] As a product of a corporate culture of profound neglect, the disaster contributed many lessons to the study of engineering ethics and errors, and to emergency management. The event remains the deadliest non‑deliberate structural failure in American history, and it was the deadliest structural collapse[4] in the U.S. until the collapse of the World Trade Center towers 20 years later.
- Both designs would have failed inevitably. The revision made it sooner.
- Jack Gillum fought belligerently in state commission and in court[1]
- wheelbarrow crews avoided the walkways
- Couldn't open the front door, and needed a bulldozer
- The disaster guy was gone. They called Waeckerle out of the gym after a long shift. He shows up and apprehends the emergency people and proceeds.
- Sources say that they did tell people they were going to die.
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Date | July 17, 1981 (1981-07-17) |
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Time | 19:05 CDT (UTC−5) |
Location | Kansas City, Missouri |
Coordinates | 39.085°N 94.580°W / 39.085; -94.580 |
Cause | Structural overload resulting from design flaws[2] |
Deaths | 114 |
Non-fatal injuries | 216 |
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