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The front page of the Daily News from the next day read “Hindenburg Explodes! 100 Dead” on May 7, 1937. Clearly those numbers weren’t fact-checked since only 36 people ended up perishing in ...
One of history’s most iconic airship tragedies, the Hindenburg disaster marked the end of the zeppelin era. Discover what ...
The Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at the ...
The fiery crash that destroyed the zeppelin Hindenburg in New Jersey on May 6, 1937, marked the end of travel by rigid airship, a stage in aviation history that today seems almost fanciful.
On May 6, 1937 an errant spark turned the hydrogen-filled airship Hindenburg into a fireball and sent it crashing to the ground, killing 36 people. News cameras filmed the fiery crash and live ...
On May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed in just minutes, killing 36 people in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Skip to main content. Open Main Menu Navigation. Open Search.
The Hindenburg disaster was not the first time that radio influenced the way or the speed by which news was delivered to the masses, nor was it the first… Breaking News, 1937: Hindenburg burns ...
On May 6, 1937, around 7:25 p.m., the Hindenburg, for reasons Buchanan still doesn’t understand, started its landing descent from above 200 feet instead of the usual 100 feet.
Werner Gustav Doehner died at his home in Laconia last week at the age of 90. Doehner was born in Germany and was 8 when the disaster happened in 1937.
Static electricity caused the Hindenburg airship to explode above Ocean County in 1937, according to a report on TheIndependent.com. A team of scientists in England conducted tests in which they ...