The Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse
カートのアイテムが多すぎます
カートに追加できませんでした。
ウィッシュリストに追加できませんでした。
ほしい物リストの削除に失敗しました。
ポッドキャストのフォローに失敗しました
ポッドキャストのフォロー解除に失敗しました
The Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse
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On July 17, 1981, hundreds of people gathered inside the Hyatt Regency Kansas City for an evening of music and dancing. Above them, spectators watched from suspended walkways crossing the hotel's soaring atrium.
At approximately 7:05 p.m., two of those walkways collapsed onto the crowded lobby below. The disaster would ultimately claim 114 lives and injure more than 200 people.
But the story didn't begin that night.
More than two years earlier, a seemingly small change had been made to the way the walkways were supported. What followed was a chain of design decisions, assumptions, missed opportunities, and failures of communication that allowed a critically deficient connection to become part of a finished hotel.
In this episode of Chain of Events, we reconstruct the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse—from the original drawings and the change that altered the structure, to the horrifying seconds inside the atrium, the extraordinary overnight rescue operation, and the investigation that transformed engineering practice.
Because sometimes a catastrophe doesn't begin when something falls.
It begins years earlier, when something changes—and no one realizes what that change means.