A critical change in the original design of the Hyatt Regency hotel’s sky walks doubled the stress on that part of the walks that later pulled apart during the collapse. City records — in ...

Editor’s note: The new Hyatt Regency hotel was the host of ... the welded steel box beams that made up the higher walkway, leading to the collapse. Coverage of the disaster and its causes ...

As the US mourns the mounting death toll from the Miami condo building collapse, the country this ... two walkways collapsed at the the Hyatt Regency hotel in Kansas City, Missouri.

But the second-floor walkway was connected ... those who had survived the collapse. Even for Waeckerle, who had responded to other disasters, the scene at the Hyatt Regency came as a shock.

As these design plans were coming together, the Hyatt Regency was already being ... The upper walkway was bound to fail, and its collapse was just a matter of time. One of the first doctors ...

The Hyatt's two skywalks — one second-floor walkway suspended from a fourth ... to video captured by a TV crew just minutes before the collapse, later examined by investigators.

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Paul R. Munger, 82, a Missouri civil engineer and longtime educator who probed the fatal 1981 Hyatt Regency skywalk collapse and chaired the board that revoked the licenses of its designers ...

Out for the evening with a friend, Mark Williams sauntered up to a Hyatt Regency hotel bar ... About 2 a.m., seven hours after the collapse, Mark Williams remained trapped in the darkness ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It’s been 43 years since one of Kansas City’s worst tragedies: the Hyatt Regency Skywalk Collapse. On July 17, 1981, a structural error ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On July 17, 1981, two skywalks in the Hyatt Regency hotel fell onto partygoers beneath them. The collapse resulted in 114 people killed and hundreds others injured.

But the second-floor walkway was connected ... those who had survived the collapse. Even for Waeckerle, who had responded to other disasters, the scene at the Hyatt Regency came as a shock.