Buried Truths and the Hyatt Skywalks: The Legacy of America's Epic Structural Failure
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In 1981 the sudden collapse of two skywalks in Kansas City's Hyatt hotel killed 114 people and injured another 200. There never was a public trial, nor a full airing of everything that went wrong. Richard A. Serrano shared a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the disaster at the time; now he returns to the tragedy to learn all that went wrong, how it could have been avoided, and what lasting effects persist today--for engineering and the legal...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1612497152
ISBN13:9781612497150
Release Date:September 2021
Publisher:Purdue University Press
Length:460 Pages
Weight:1.70 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 7.7" x 9.2"
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