Was the Hindenburg disaster inevitable? The massive airship was built to lead a new era of air travel, but instead, it met a fiery fate. What really happened that day, and could this tragedy have been ...

Alfred Snook, another eyewitness, gave this account of the disaster: The zepplin Hindenburg flies over Manhattan. “I drove up to the air station about ten minutes before the explosion.

While the explosion was tragic and many people died ... The true cause of the tragedy may never be known. But the Hindenburg disaster remains an eerily compelling story, even three-quarters ...

Photographs taken right after the initial explosion show lines of fire along ... we’re still not quite sure what to believe about the Hindenburg disaster. Can the use of hydrogen gas in ...

Dazed and bloodied by the shattering explosion that wrecked the Hindenburg dirigible ... since only 36 people ended up perishing in the disaster. Werner Doehner was just 8 when the airship ...

The scope of that fictional disaster was hard to fathom ... that hydrogen was to blame for the explosion, Grossman said. Instead, some argue that the Hindenburg's skin was flammable.

Before the disaster, the LZ-129 Hindenburg – with swastikas emblazoned ... The last thing Schenck filmed before the explosion was the landing lines being lowered to the ground four minutes ...

Joseph Spah survived the disastrous crash of the Hindenburg on May 6 ... Then there was another explosion. This was all a matter of seconds. I knocked out one of the windows with my fist.

Eight decades later, Doehner is the only one left to remember what it was like on the Hindenburg that night. A ceremony commemorating the disaster will take place at the crash site on Saturday ...

Contrary to public perception, there was no explosion. The Hindenburg, at nearly 804 feet ... national news and therefore it became the first disaster captured on motion picture film.