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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.
2008-04-04 14:56 MickMacNee 463×342× (97890 bytes) Description: View of the collapsed walkways, during the first day of the investigation of the [[Hyatt Regency walkway collapse]].
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]
The man who died outside Hyatt Regency identified, preliminary cause of death is homicide, according to Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office.
An American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter collided over Washington, D.C., Wednesday night. All 67 people aboard the aircraft are presumed dead.
A Baltimore Police Department marine departs the Metropolitan Police Department Harbor Patrol facility on its way to the site of the crash between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army ...
The KCFD was the primary agency that responded to the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse which occurred at the Hyatt Regency Kansas City in Kansas City on Friday, July 17, 1981. Two vertically contiguous walkways collapsed onto a tea dance being held in the hotel's lobby. The falling walkways killed 114 and injured a further 216 people. [8]
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