Hartford Whalers Roof Collapse

About six hours later in the early morning of january 18 the roof of the sports coliseum collapsed onto 10 000 empty stadium seats.

Hartford whalers roof collapse. Faulty design was ultimately ruled as the culprit. Whalers fans keep dream of nhl franchise returning to hartford alive. Hartford whalers final whalers goal kevin dineen. The hartford whalers were an american professional ice hockey team based for most of its existence in hartford connecticut the club played in the world hockey association wha from 1972 until 1979 and in the national hockey league nhl from 1979 to 1997 originally based in boston the team joined the wha in the league s inaugural season and was known as the new england whalers throughout.

In the early morning of january 18 1978 the weight of snow from the day s heavy snowstorm caused the civic center s roof to collapse. Faulty design was ultimately ruled as the culprit. As originally built in 1975 it seated 10 507 for hockey and served as the home of the then new england whalersfor three years. In the early morning hours of jan.

No one was in the building and no one was injured. 18 1978 the roof of the hartford civic center collapsed under the weight of heavy snow and ice. Cad software programmer failure collapses roof of hartford civic center 1978. In the early morning hours of jan.

No injuries were reported. Two guards and two maintenance men were reportedly in the hartford civic center but not under the coliseum roof when the collapse occurred at 4 15 a m. 18 1978 the roof of the hartford civic center collapsed under the weight of heavy snow and ice. At 4 19am on january 18 1978 downtown hartford narrowly missed being the site of one of the deadliest disasters in american history when the entire roof of the hartford civic center arena covering an area of nearly 2 5 acres and weighing 1 400 tons suddenly collapsed onto a coliseum of 10 000 empty seats.