More than 1,500 revelers had gathered on the first floor of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency for a popular tea dance party hosted by the swanky 1-year-old hotel. As musicians performed big band hits ...

More than 1,500 revelers had gathered on the first floor of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency for a popular tea dance party hosted by the swanky 1-year-old hotel. As musicians performed big band hits ...

Every year, July 17 is a mournful day in Kansas City ... the Hyatt Regency Hotel. The structural failure led to the deaths of 114 people, many who were there for the Friday night tea dance.

The dedication included speeches and a tribute to the first responders as well as a reading of names of the 114 people who were killed when the skywalks fell during a dance in the lobby of the ...

The collapse occurred July 17, 1981, during a dance that drew about 1,500 people to the hotel. Shortly after 7 p.m., the fourth-floor skywalk gave way, falling on a second-floor skywalk.

Two catwalks spanning the lobby crashed onto a crowded dance ... days Kansas City has ever seen. That's when two overhead skywalks in the Hyatt Regency Hotel lobby collapsed during a party with ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo ... when disaster struck the Hyatt Regency Hotel on July 17, 1981. Hundreds of people had gathered in the hotel lobby for that night’s “tea dance” when skywalks collapsed.

two suspended walkways collapsed inside Kansas City's Hyatt Regency Hotel.The collapse happened at the worst possible time. The room was packed for a Friday night tea dance. People were still ...

Wednesday marks the 38th anniversary of one of the worst tragedies in Kansas ... City history – the Hyatt Skywalk disaster. More than 2,000 people were attending a tea dance at the Hyatt Regency ...

Until the events of 9/11, the skywalk collapse at the former Hyatt Regency hotel in Kansas City, Mo ... during a “tea dance” with 1,500 people in attendance. Because two engineers behaved ...

In 1981, 114 people were killed when two walkways, directly on top of each other, collapsed at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, and crashed into a tea dance being held in the lobby.