1981 Hyatt Regency walkway collapse

A tea dance had drawn hundreds of people into the atrium of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, when two suspended walkways above them came down. NIST records 113 dead and 186 injured.

Date

1981-07-17

Deaths (Wikipedia list, low end where it gives a range)

114

What the pin marks

The hotel whose suspended walkways fell, as the cited page positions it.

Where the position is published

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: walkway, hotel, engineering failure, missouri

Coordinates: 39.085, -94.58

Part of Bridge failures that killed 50 or more people since 1900

Related collections

• Mass shootings in the United States that killed 13 or more people since 1949 — United States · 18 locations
• Industrial and accidental explosions that killed 200 or more people since 1900 — Worldwide · 13 locations
• Peacetime shipwrecks that killed 500 or more people since 1900 — Worldwide · 10 locations
• Tsunamis with waves of 15 metres or more from 1800 to 1899 — Worldwide · 12 locations
• Western Pacific typhoons of category 4 and above in the 2010 to 2013 seasons — Western North Pacific · 18 locations
• Western Pacific typhoons of category 4 and above in the 2016 season — Western North Pacific · 8 locations