LZ 129 Hindenburg, The End

[dearmalika]

OMG! What a horror! 

[MarceloAvero]

A "Led Zeppelin"

[davetonia1233]

is it true that the coverings of the ship where made of stuff that is pretty much similar to thermite in chemical makeup?

[philthydirtyanimal]

@davetonia1233 No, I don't think so. I think it was perhaps large parts of the frame that were made from an Aluminium alloy (Duralum?), which once it starts burning is very difficult to extinguish. (Similar to what happened to HMS Sheffield in the Falklands War)

[metalmillita666]

Ohhhh the humanity

[MidnightSun1994]

Do you see? There are some seconds missing.

In 0:08, you see the Hindenburg flying, but in 0:10, you see it burning. Why don't we see how it started to burn?

A trick?

[philthydirtyanimal]

The whole film is a fabrication; moving footage & soundtrack are from 2 different sources. The man talking was on radio, so there were no images. In the years between then and now the two different media were edited together. It was so long ago that people now think that this was filmed with sound.

There is other film footage. And a documentary on Discovery Channel showed it and the competing theories.

But evidence is strongest for the static discharge theory.

[Mindraker1]

@philthydirtyanimal The film skipped because it wasn't a digital film, like we have today. Imagine a phonograph player needle jumping due to the shockwave.

[Steaphany]

Regardless where I've seen this footage, that jump is always there.

Remember, this was the first flight of the season and the prior years went successfully with out a problem.

I'm suspecting the photographer stopped shooting and only restarted the camera after the fire was already burning.

[atomicButler1]

Thats impossible because if u look at it closely u see that the hindenburg was burning from the interior and never from the exterior and at a point u c that the front of it bursts into flames while the outside of the front never even caught on fire yet and if it was static then you would have saw the whole outside burst into flames before the interior.

[philthydirtyanimal]

It's not impossible. The airship was not completely filled with hydrogen. The gas was contained in large cells or compartments within the structure that you see. It could have been burning for a number of seconds on the inside before being visible on the outside.

The static discharge theory is the one that is widely regarded as the most plausible.

[triton115]

I actually heard that the real cause of the Hindenburg crash was a spark of static electricity, plus that one hard turn the captain made earlier to attempt to line up with the mooring mast caused a tension cable near the stern to snap and whip back, tearing into a gas cell and causing it to leak hydrogen.

[droidekabakugan1986]

@triton115 That's exactly what happened! I managed to solve the mystery despite several nightmares I had, one of which I died in.

[triton115]

The sequence is shown in a British "Seconds from Disaster" show. When Pruss and Lehmann made a hard left to line up with the mast, the strain placed on the frame snapped a tension cable near the stern causing it to whip back and tear open one of the gas cells and allowing hydrogen to leak. Then when the mooring ropes were dropped, the ship grounded itself, but the fabric didn't, therefore a spark of static arced from the fabric to the frame, igniting the leaking hydrogen.

[trinita777]

terrible !!!!

[MultiBossie]

Thas lol hhaha

[sepkripper]

omg! thats so sad

[philthydirtyanimal]

I agree; quite shocking.

[LissaaGirl]

some things in our life are horrible

[philthydirtyanimal]

unfortunately so. but there is always hope.

[LissaaGirl]

yes that´s right!!

[angelicsnoww]

i agree

[Keinlicht]

@LissaaGirl How the fuck are comments like these highest rated?

[webboffin]

Oh the humanity

[SPACE1966GHOST]

MAY...sorry for the writing

[SPACE1966GHOST]

i heard that day my 6 1937 it was rainin...i think a lighting stroke the hidenburg

[tigrica545]

in 36 sec it burned=O

[EVTR4lfe]

wow. how horrid.

[Fled91]

must be one the most horrible disasters...

...tragick

[acdcguyforever]

thx for the video dude

[philthydirtyanimal]

de rien

[WernerWarhead14]

Airships is faster then boats but not as fast an airplane, but the airship was the "lux cruiser of the sky" and was far more confortble then an airplane. To bad they dont use airships as "Airliners" eny more.

(Sorry for my bad English)

[philthydirtyanimal]

ditt engelska är mycket som är bättre än min svensk! I think that accidents, like this one and the R101, made people afraid. But if people enjoy cruises on liners, maybe they would enjoy 'air-cruising'.