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The list is missing the Hyatt Hotel Walkway Collapse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Hotel_disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Hotel_disaster The
by c0ur7n3y 12y ago
The list is missing the Hyatt Hotel Walkway Collapse:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Hotel_disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Hotel_disaster
The contractor made a small design change to make things easier for themselves and ended up causing a bolt to hold twice the weight it was intended to hold. 114 people were killed and 216 were injured.
- smellf 12y agoHoly shit, that was gruesome: > Those people who could walk were instructed to leave the hotel to simplify the rescue effort; those mortally injured were told they were going to die and given morphine. Often, rescuers had to dismember bodies in order to reach survivors among the wreckage. One victim's right leg was trapped under an I-beam and had to be amputated by a surgeon, a task which was completed with a chain saw. (Also, how do you format a quotation on HN??)