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The landing of the concrete fourth-floor walkway, atop the crowded second-floor walkway. About 1,600 people gathered in the atrium for a tea dance on the evening of Friday, July 17, 1981. [6] The second-level walkway held about 40 people at about 7:05 p.m., with more on the third and an additional 16 to 20 on the fourth.
Hyatt Regency walkway collapse: Kansas City, Missouri: United States 17 July 1981: Double-deck suspended footbridge in hotel interior Erroneous redesign of supporting member during construction when original design considered too hard to construct 114 killed, 200 injured Walkway destroyed View of the lobby floor, showing remains of the ...
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On July 17, 1981, 114 [4] people were killed in the Hyatt Regency when the fourth-floor walkway in the atrium collapsed on the second-floor walkway during a tea dance attended by more than 1,600 revelers. An investigation revealed that tie rods supporting the walkway did not meet Kansas City building codes. [5]
A man whose wife was on the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C. has revealed the final text he received from her before the crash. On ...
An American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter collided over Washington, D.C., Wednesday night. All 67 people aboard the aircraft are presumed dead.
However, on Wednesday, an air traffic control supervisor combined those duties sometime before 9:30 p.m. and allowed one air traffic controller to leave the job early, the Times reported.
The DC-10 crashes and explodes into a fireball, killing 112 of the 296 people on board. 184 people survive the accident, in part thanks to a deadheading training-check and an airman named Dennis Edward Fitch who was able to provide assistance to the flight crew in controlling the DC-10.