Kansas City [videorecording]
Series: [Disaster series].Publisher: French Forest, NSW : BBC Active, 2006Description: 1 videodisc (30 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.Other title: Disaster special : Kansas city.Subject(s): Kansas City Hyatt Regency | Disasters -- Psychological aspects
| Building failures -- Investigation -- Missouri -- Kansas City | Structural failures -- Investigation | Skywalks -- Accidents -- Missouri -- Kansas CityDDC classification: 303.48509778 Summary: On a hot July evening in 1981, 200 people were enjoying a 1940s-style 'tea dance' at the recently opened Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. A few minutes after 7pm, part of the hotel atrium collapsed, killing 114 dancers below and injuring hundreds. This dramatic and moving film re-creates that terrible night, explaining how so many people lost their lives, and how many more were saved in a heroic rescue effort. It also reveals the catalogue of human errors that lay behind the flawed design, in one of the largest accidental structural failures in American history.
| Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| Media Resources | Taylor's Library-TU | 303.48509778 KAN 2006 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | SOExx,07015,03,GR | 1000526017 |
Originally issued as a videocassette.
On a hot July evening in 1981, 200 people were enjoying a 1940s-style 'tea dance' at the recently opened Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. A few minutes after 7pm, part of the hotel atrium collapsed, killing 114 dancers below and injuring hundreds. This dramatic and moving film re-creates that terrible night, explaining how so many people lost their lives, and how many more were saved in a heroic rescue effort. It also reveals the catalogue of human errors that lay behind the flawed design, in one of the largest accidental structural failures in American history.