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40 Seconds That Shook Kansas City: The Hyatt Tragedy Revisited
July 17, 2025, marks another somber anniversary of the Hyatt Regency skywalk tragedy in Kansas City—a dark milestone in structural engineering and human memory. On that evening in 1981, hundreds gathered for a lively tea dance in the hotel’s atrium when the fourth-floor walkway collapsed onto the second floor, plummeting into the crowded lobby below.…