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> On July 17, 1981, the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, suffered the structural collapse of two overhead walkways.
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> [ . . . ] the second deadliest structural collapseβ in the United States until the collapse of the World Trade Center towers 20 years later.
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> The rescue operation lasted 14 hours [ . . . ]
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> A total of 114 were killed and 216 injured, 29 of whom were rescued from the rubble.
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@clacke
I vaguely remember seeing the story on the TV news. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse
There was some public discussion of architecture and engineering ... not just who to blame, but how to prevent similar collapses in the future.
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The article mentions the aftermath and the lessons learned. Practices and codes were updated and the lead engineer became a safety lecturer for civil engineer students.
And it seems to have been effective! No unintentional structural collapse on this scale has happened in the US since.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy-Vee_Arena#1979_roof_collapse There were a couple of other big collapses linked in that article. This one was two years earlier and also in #KCMO.