How Did The Hyatt Regency Hotel Collapse

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• Loss of life and injuries On the night of collapse which is on July 17, 1981, the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri was hosting a tea dance in the atrium lobby. During the incident, approximately 1600 people are gathered in the atrium to participate in a tea dance (NASA, 2008) .Many people during the tea dance are dancing and standing on the suspended walkways. The second and fourth floor is the two connected walkways whereas the fourth floor bridge was suspended directly over the second-floor bridge (Brady, 2015).Suddenly at 7.05 pm, the connection of the two suspended floor failed, and the fourth-floor walkway collapsed onto the second-floor walkway and both of this walkways began to fall to the lobby floor. The collapse of the second and fourth floor walkways at the Hyatt Regency hotel resulted in 114 fatalities. 111 people have died immediately at the scene and another 3 people have died in the hospital. The people that are injured in this incident are more than 200 people and these people are being transferred and treated by 17 hospitals. • Loss of cost …show more content…

The people who were in the building during the incident of the walkways collapse is the most affected. The family and friends that the people did not survive and were injured during the incident also were affected. The owner of the Hyatt Regency Hotel which is the Crown Center Corporation is paid at least $140 million in legal claims to the victims and their families (Brady, 2015). There are 72 rescue workers that are sued for the trauma that they had agonized due to the efforts to rescue. The claims received from the rescue workers was about $150 million but they solve the problem with only as much as $

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