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Inside the glittering Hyatt Regency atrium in Kansas City, a Friday night tea dance drew hundreds beneath three suspended skywalks—until two of them suddenly tore free and crashed to the lobby below. This is the story of a quiet design change, a missed calculation, and a night that turned celebration into catastrophe.

On July 17, 1981, the hotel’s structural team and steel fabrication process approved a hanger-rod redesign that shifted loads onto thin box-beam connections not built to carry them.
What followed was a hidden safety risk that became one of the deadliest structural failures in U.S. history—114 lives lost, 200+ injured—and an investigation that exposed how a “small” shop-drawing change can double a critical load path and doom a crowd.
This is the documented story of the Hyatt Regency skywalk collapse, told through records, shop drawings, testimony, and engineering evidence.

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