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A Fascination with Failure: Death On The Dancefloor (Classic)

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

The Collapse of the Hyatt Regency Hotel

Jack Gillum was the structural engineer of record for the Hyatt Regency Hotel's construction. He signed off on all the designs, certifying that they were safe. The elegant walkways across the hotel lobby had fallen out of the sky and smashed into the crowd below. Locals did whatever they could to tend to the walking wounded, free the trapped and comfort families.

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