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  2. Hyatt Regency walkway collapse - Wikipedia

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    The hotel reopened three months after the tragedy. [8] In 1983, local authorities reported that the $5 million hotel reconstruction made the building "possibly the safest in the country." [16] The hotel was renamed the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in 1987, and the Sheraton Kansas City at Crown Center in 2011. It has been renovated numerous times ...

  3. Joseph Waeckerle - Wikipedia

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    Joseph F. Waeckerle is an American physician specializing in emergency and sports medicine. He directed the search and rescue efforts at the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 17, 1981.

  4. ‘God picked the right person.’ Sally Firestone thrived after ...

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    On July 17, 1981, two suspended skywalks suddenly gave way during a lavish tea dance in the lobby of the new Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel at Crown Center. One hundred fourteen lives were lost ...

  5. List of Seconds from Disaster episodes - Wikipedia

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    1,500 people gather for a dance in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City. The second and 4th floor skywalks , hung from steel rods, fail. They collapse and crush 114 people to death.

  6. The deadliest building collapses in U.S. history

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    July 17, 1981: The second- and fourth-story walkways inside the Hyatt Regency hotel in Kansas City, Mo., collapsed onto the lobby, killing 114 and injuring 200. Around 1,600 people were in the ...

  7. Dick Berkley, Kansas City’s longest-serving mayor who led ...

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    Berkley was the city’s first Jewish mayor and its last Republican mayor. His tenure was marked by the 1981 collapse of the Hyatt Regency walkway.

  8. Category:Building and structure collapses in 1981 - Wikipedia

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    Hyatt Regency walkway collapse; M. Matla Power Station This page was last edited on 20 November 2024, at 20:11 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  9. Crown Center - Wikipedia

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    In addition to the Westin, the Crown Center complex includes the Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center, opened July 1, 1980 as the Hyatt Regency Kansas City. The roof had collapsed during construction, and then the hotel suffered the walkway collapse on July 17, 1981, killing 114 people in the deadliest non‑deliberate structural failure ...