This Skyscraper Was Days From Collapsing And No One Knew

Veritasium · 26.4M views · 2025 · 33:39

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A phone call from a student reveals a critical structural flaw in the Citicorp skyscraper before it could collapse.

Linked by 16 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including pocketcasts.com, tiekoetter.com, metabunk.org, craigmod.com, chambers.io.

Cited in 2 Wikipedia articles, including Citicorp Center engineering crisis, William LeMessurier.