Skywalk Collapse Incident

Join Lucien Graves as he unearths the devastating truth behind the 1981 Kansas City Hyatt Regency walkway collapse that killed 114 people—a tragedy born from a single uncalculated design change made during a phone call. This series traces every ignored warning, revealing how critical engineering connections were reduced to thirty percent of code minimum.Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTVThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AIThis episode includes AI-generated content.

Lucien Graves examines the 1981 Hyatt Regency walkway collapse, where a phone call replaced critical engineering calculations, killing 114 people. A design change doubling structural load was approved verbally without verification—a catastrophic failure where everyone deflected responsibility and no one performed the simple arithmetic that would have revealed deadly inadequacy.Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTVThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AIThis episode includes AI-generated content.

Host Lucien Graves examines the 1981 Hyatt Regency walkway collapse that killed 114 people in Kansas City. For sixteen months before disaster struck, construction workers observed steel beams visibly bending and deforming—yet no one reported it. Graves analyzes the fatal design change, web crippling, eccentric loading, and the systematic failures that turned observable warnings into ignored omens.Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTVThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AIThis episode includes AI-generated content.

Lucien Graves examines the 1981 Hyatt Regency walkway collapse in Kansas City that killed 114 people. A single unapproved design change—switching from continuous to double hanger rods—doubled the load on already-underdesigned connections. The modification was approved over the phone without calculations, transforming an inadequate structure into a deadly one that failed during a crowded tea dance.Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTVThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AIThis episode includes AI-generated content.