Fid Backhouse and others
Contributor
Fid Backhouse—along with Kieran Fogarty, Roland Matthews, Joe Toussaint, Janet Zoro, Jackum Brown, and Sal Oliver—is a contributor to 501 Most Devastating Disasters. Earlier versions of their contributions to Britannica first appeared in that book.
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Hyatt Regency walkway collapse, disaster that occurred at a hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S., on July 17, 1981, when two suspended walkways above the lobby area collapsed, killing 114 people and injuring another 216. It was one of the worst engineering-caused disasters in U.S. history. When the…
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