On July 17, 1981, two suspended walkways spanning the atrium lobby of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Mo., collapsed abruptly onto an unsuspecting crowd of more than 1,000 attending a "tea" dance. The walkway failure killed 111 people, injured 118, shattered the lives of hundreds more and sent shock waves through the nation and especially the building community. The hotel tragedy has become the late 20th Century's low watermark against which all other botched buildings are compared.
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