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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 ...
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 ...
On July 17, 1981, two overhead walkways loaded with partygoers at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, collapsed. The concrete and glass platforms fell onto a tea dance in the lobby, killing 114 and injuring 216. Investigations concluded the walkway would have failed under one-third the weight it held that night because of a ...
The wife of D'Vontaye Mitchell and her attorney shared surveillance footage Friday evening from the night the 43-year-old died outside of the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Milwaukee.. At a press ...
NEWS ALERT: @AttorneyCrump has been retained by the family of 43-year-old Dvontaye Mitchell, a Black man who was killed by security guards outside the Hyatt Regency Hotel on Sunday, June 30. pic ...
Herbert Williamson was taken into custody three days after he and his three co-defendants were charged with being a party to felony murder in Mitchell’s June 30 death at a Hyatt Regency hotel ...
Among the heroic efforts the night of the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse were those of doctors attending a Radiology convention who happened to be dining at the hotel. As a secretary for the Radiology Film division of Eastman Kodak in Houston, Texas, I was on the phone constantly the morning after the tragedy.
Dar Allen Robinson (March 26, 1947 – November 21, 1986) was an American stunt performer and actor. Robinson broke 19 world records and set 21 "world's firsts." [1] He invented the decelerator (use of dragline cables rather than airbags for a "high fall gag", [citation needed] or a stunt calling for a jump from a high place) which allowed a cameraman to film a top-down view of the stuntman as ...