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A Fascination with Failure: Death On The Dancefloor (Classic)
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Fall of a Skywalk
More than 60 tons of steel and concrete fell onto the dances below, spraying bystanders with deadly glass shrapnel. The entire chain reaction took seconds. One man was half buried, his legs crushed by a piece of skywalk. Medics were forced to tell people, we can't get you out in time. You'll die before they get the cranes in here. Mark Williams was an old school friend of Joseph Wackley. He was trapped in an 18-inch pocket of air underneath a section of fallen skywalk. His legs had been slightly askew when the skywalks fell and were wrenched into the splits and beyond. But other trapped people could hear his voice calmly
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