KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It’s been 43 years since one of Kansas City’s worst tragedies: the Hyatt Regency Skywalk Collapse. On July 17, 1981, a structural error ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — This weekend marks 40 ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Forty years ago, crime ...
The scenes of devastation were horrendous when the skywalks of Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency Hotel came crashing down on the crowd below on July 17, 1981. Oversights in the construction of the two ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Bob Berkebile calls July 17, 1981, the longest night of his life. There are a lot of people who could describe that night the same way, but Berkebile's story of that night is ...
At a time of increased scrutiny of the integrity of structures, KMBC is set to air an hour-long documentary on the worst structural disaster of its time – the 1981 Hyatt skywalks collapse. KMBC 9 ...
Minister John F. Drew III told the crowd to remember their loved ones as he released white doves and they flew toward the Kansas City skyline — symbolic of a journey home. Behind them stood an ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- In a city of memorials -- to wars, firefighters, the Eagle Scouts, musicians and athletes -- there is none yet to remind people of the hundreds of lives lost and scarred by one of ...
Friends, family and first responders touched by the collapse of two elevated walkways inside the Hyatt Regency Hotel gather Saturday around a sculpture commemorating lives lost. It's been 40 years ...
The 1981 Hyatt Regency disaster killed 114 after a poorly designed skywalk collapsed during a crowded event. GOP plans to replace Obamacare have failed. Here’s what lawmakers propose now. Virginia ...