Kansas City Hotel Collapse 1981

The original design had all of the walkways suspended from the ceiling with steel rods retained by nuts.

Kansas city hotel collapse 1981. A visit to the former hyatt hotel kansas city where the skywalks collapsed killing 114 people in 1981. A change in the original design of a series of walkways suspended above the lobby s hotel led to a connection failure. At the time it was the deadliest structural collapse in u s. On july 17th 1981 more than 100 people were killed and another 200 or so injured when two walkways collapsed within the hyatt regency kansas city hotel.

As a product of a corporate culture of profound neglect the disaster contributed many lessons to the study of engineering ethics and errors and to emergency management. Connections supporting rods from the ceiling that held up the second and fourth floor walkways across the atrium of the hyatt regency hotel collapse killing 114 and injuring in excess of 200 others. On july 17 1981 two walkways collapsed at the hyatt regency kansas city hotel in kansas city missouri one directly above the other they crashed onto a tea dance being held in the hotel s lobby killing 114 and injuring 216. On july 17th 1981 one of the premier hotels in kansas city suffered a catastrophic structural collapse that killed dozens of people and became a textbook case study for universities throughout the world.

The wreckage of two catwalks is scattered through the lobby of the kansas city hyatt regency hotel after a collapse on friday july 17 1981. The revelations an indirect aftermath of the hotel disaster on july 17 1981 led to a shake up in the top ranks of the city department responsible for building code enforcement. July 17 1981 was the night the skywalks fell at the hyatt regency hotel 38 years ago. On july 17 1981 a suspended walkway collapsed in the hyatt regency hotel in kansas city missouri killing 114 people and injuring 216 others during a tea dance.

In 1981 a walkway in the hyatt regency hotel in kansas city collapsed killing 114 people and injuring 200 more. In a matter of seconds the lives of thousands of kansas city area residents changed forever. Construction of hotel complete and the kansas city hyatt regency hotel opened for business.