It never ceases to amaze me how a video like this about true heroism and personal sacrifice can elicit such controversy, snide remarks, and genuine lack of anything resembling human decency, or any kind of humanity for that matter.
As for me, thank you Mr. Nerandzi for the wonderful example you have set, and which so many of us would fail to emulate. RIP, sir.
that's the definition of hero, he had to react quickly and decided to sacrifice himself to save his passengers and people on the ground. rest in peace good sir
because he was making sure when the blimp exploded, the passengers wouldnt be in the way of harm. so he took it away from their area and higher into sky.
@Nuclear12331 well sounds like suicide to me. how did he think he was going to survive going back into the sky with a burning balloon? id have hovered for a few secs on the ground til the passengers were safe then jumped myself.
@ricglos Looking at those vids its the canopy in flames not the actual helium filled body, I would suggest more like a fuel fire, they are powered aircraft affer all, and do carry fuel on board :) Hence why the passengers had a strong smell of fuel, its not the helium burning, but its own fuel.
The German BND openly persecutes religions.People attending mess are being brainwashed,tortured or murdered by the BND.My brother Markus Bott was murdered on 11.7.09,also because being christian.The German churches already lost 3 Bishops within the first half of 2010 due to campaigns using lies+faked evidence.A 4.Bishop was attacked then.There are rumours that Bishop Dyba was assassinated.Ali Agca who shot at John Paul II lived in Germany before
@MontrealMan1970 Ok he could have done that, with the risk that the blimp would crash near enough to kill them, but the there was a huge possibility that it would crash into a building causing a bigger fire and disaster killing many more than just one. He did the right thing. An honorable death is the best way to go.
~Sadly, it is only wish that this most devotedly thoughtful Airship-pilot Capt.-Michael'Nerandzic had been just a bit more mindful of his own life as well, --by having likewise been sufficiently nimble-footed as to have also jumped-ship behind the last escaping passenger; --as the world certainly needs more wonderful people like him! We thus sadly salute your altruistic bravery Captain..!!! ~R.I.P.
So, instead of jumping out of the blimp, saving himself, and running the incredibly slim risk of killing someone else on the ground (honestly, who wouldn't be able to move out of the way of a slow falling blimp.) He decided to steer it into a field, and get burnt to a crisp.... Sounds like a smart chap.
The German BND is the renamed 3rd Reich GESTAPO.The BND had organized the delegate Scheuermann of our county to visit or home.To allow him to personally experience how my brother and our parents had been tortured.The BND continued to torture my brother.He was assassinated on July 11th2009.Half a year after the assassination of my brother the CDU delegate Mappus from our district town Pforzheim was made prime minister of the German land of Baden Würtemberg
@wwwtotalitaerde You asshole don't even have enough ethics left in your fat body to spare such a kind of video from your slandering spam-comments. You are a disgrace to humanity and I hope the Grim Reaper sets off to visit you as soon as possible.
@doh1959 Well there are hundreds of airline crashes, why do they keep making them? The number of ships that have crashed since the Hindenburg I can count on one hand. The number of planes fill volumes. As well on airship goes down a few people, a 747 you loss 4 to 6 hundred.
That being said, the pilot was a brave and resourceful man.
@Volleyballgirl98 Not really Hindenburg was a rigid frame craft with 16 bags inside the frame all filled with hydrogen. While this was a single free envelope filled with helium (non burning) while the fire on the Hindenburg burnt because of its lifting gas, this one burnt because of its fuel, the lifting gas would not have caught on fire at all.
For a modern blimp to catch fire and crash, that's odd. I hope they'll find the cause of the fire. I see some irony after finding out this very blimp was called The Spirit of Safety.
Please, this was nothing like the Hindenburg. And the Hindenburg didn't have to happen either, had the US not restricted helium sales to Nazi Berlin. Like sanctioning dictators today, the failure to sell safe gas to Germany cost ordinary people their lives and did nothing to stop Hitler. But we never learn do we?
The Passenger Jump out of the Blimp. Now the Blimp lost many wight and beginns to climb with more than 2 Ft per Second. I dont understand why the Pilot dont jumps out of the Blimp with the Passenger. A Broken Leg is not so Painful.
We can hear the scriming from the Pilot in the blimp on the Ground. This was so a scary. He scream and scream. The Blimp is Climbing. After 3 Min. The screaming is over. The Fire are catching the Hull an the Blimps Helium going out. The Blimp desents very fast and.
@tuthiernichtzursache i would have landed in a place with other people.. Didn't you hear how he steered it AWAY from his ground crew therefor saving more lives?
The Pilot from the Goodyear Blimb desent with more than 3Ft per Second. The Blimp hit the Ground with
a sinkrate of 3,5 FT per Second. This was so heavy taht the Landinggear and the Fueltank are broke.
The Blimp desent to fast an hits the Ground.
The Pilot says: We have been crashd. The Passenger says: I can smell Fuel.The Blimp climb with 0,5 Ft per Second. The Fuel Begins to burn (From hot Engine) The Pilot desent the Blimp an says to Passenger at 1 FT High: Jump out, jump out.
If he hovered it so low to the ground that the passengers could jump out, then why didnt he just land? Or jump out himself? I don't quite understand, or is that not possible in a blimp?
It's called a blimp because it IS a blimp. Zeppelins are RIGID airships with internal SPARS to provide structure. Blimps are in essence, gas bags, that have a shape defined by the helium they hold.
@pliosaurus your a frob the pilot did everything he could to save the passengers and it was not his fault because blimps like that suddenly burst into flames....
@MrCasper03 Well thats just because theres alot more planes then blimps and alot more people in planes then blimps it's statistics if there were just as much blimps who knows they might be worse might be better depending on the tech at the time eather way I would'nt say eather is worse or better other then blimps are slow and planes arnt blimps are more comfortable while planes arnt.
@zeppship I was researching an airship project at university, turns out that until about 3 years ago hydrogen was banned from all commercial lighter than air craft in the us because of the Hindenburg. However the ban has been lifted allowing the use of hydrogen/inert gas mixtures for lift again. This is actually good news as helium is too expensive and rare to be cost effective and hydrogen has more lifting power. Airships would be an awesome way to travel across the US!
Someone suggested the main envelope exploded. With no allowance, the pressure would increase as the blimp went higher and this would cause the envelope to rupture. However, this doesn't happen because there are equalizer bags inside the envelope which inflate and deflate to maintain an even pressure. The fire simply burned through the envelope (which is rubberized canvas) and allowed the helium to escape.
A Goodyear blimp is normally trimmed to about 50 lbs of weight. You fly with a slight nose up attitude to generate lift. Even one person jumping off would have changed the trim to buoyant. Several jumping off would have made it more than 300 lbs buoyant. The pilot can vent helium but not very quickly, not the way a regular balloon can vent hot air when it touches down. These blimps also cannot pivot the engines to point downward to create downward thrust.
@zeppship You are sick and tired of having to wait for an answer to why it happed? Think of the pilots poor family. Yes, it would be nice to know why, but to be sick and tired of waiting?
@geezah22 I'ts not that i dont care about the pilot or his family. The crash is tragic, i know. But what i want to know most is why on earth it happened.
@barrab Unselfish (adj) : generous; a person who is not selfish. Example: She is a very unselfish woman. Selfless (adj) : having no concern for self. Info provided by m-w.com (Merriam Webster).
@apatheticempathy whether he had had a drink or not, he still did the right thing once the trouble came. kudos to his thinking of himself last. in that aspect he was a true Captain.
@apatheticempathy What?!?! Nobody died, only the pilot died! He brought his passengers to safety first, that's why there aren't any dead! Only himself! Now, about being "drunk", he had 2 coupes of champagne! 2 small glasses! ALSO, the 32 or 36 people who are death, that accident happened in !!1937!!, with the Hindenburg! That accident happened in America, in New Jersey, in 1937! This one happened on the 12th June 2011, in Germany! It was caused by a fuel leak, not of his 2 glasses of champagne!
@apatheticempathy Didn't you understand the news, what they said? What about history? Not your strongest side, right!?!? That disaster with the Hindenburg is the most famous blimp accident. Now, the Goodyear blimp had a malfuntion, and that caused a fuel leak, causing the fuel to catch fire on the hot engine parts. And the pilot was not drunk at all! He steered the blimp away from the people on the gound, and some houses, so he saved even more lives. So, have a little of respect. He's dead now.
I have seen the blimp just minutes befor it crashed flying over my hometown, one of my employees hous was next to the field were it went down, she has seen it from here living room and heard him crying in the flames as he died in the flames
For "sensitivity" reasons as YT is "forever" (regarding his kids) get a DIFFERENT VOICE OVER GUY TO READ IT. This guy sounds like a comic book arch-nemesis.
COMPLETE LIES. GOVERNMENT COVER UP! HOW DO YOU FLOAT ABOVE THE GROUND AND THAN CRASH FROM THE SKY? Because a few people got off it went straight up? no.
thats a real hero right there god bless him
rocketfish82 1 day ago
true hero
WhereDaXanax 2 days ago
It never ceases to amaze me how a video like this about true heroism and personal sacrifice can elicit such controversy, snide remarks, and genuine lack of anything resembling human decency, or any kind of humanity for that matter.
As for me, thank you Mr. Nerandzi for the wonderful example you have set, and which so many of us would fail to emulate. RIP, sir.
Rikki0 2 days ago
that's the definition of hero, he had to react quickly and decided to sacrifice himself to save his passengers and people on the ground. rest in peace good sir
MrRednijlad 3 days ago
how`s that schettino
roojrooj 3 days ago
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radrufdesign 3 days ago
RIP =)
N0N4M0 4 days ago
oh my god!
I am sad
bambooindark1 1 week ago
RIP Michael Nerandzi. you are loved by many im sure...
couvidan 1 week ago
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couvidan 1 week ago
hindenburg?
flyingjifs67 1 week ago
Good thing it wasnt the Costa Concordia captain or he would have jumped out and let all the passengers go up into the sky and die.
mechiefslapahobitch 1 week ago
This was made by lightship, and not a regular made by good year blimp.
9171961jo 1 week ago
Mr pilot sir, even an arrow to the knee would not stop you...
andygaras 1 week ago
@andygaras
shut the fuck up, fag
MrRambox2000 1 week ago
@MrRambox2000 Your out of order.
SEATracers 6 days ago
This is what captains order is all about, and some few live the heroic standard to the very end.
perberge 1 week ago
@dtrojan88
Genius response! Bravo!
xophertm 1 week ago
He stayed with his craft to get clear of people. That pilot was a STUD! RIP
oldfart387 2 weeks ago
Amazing Heroism.
WeaverPilot 2 weeks ago
I wish he jumped off to right along others. R.I.P , Mr. pilot.
JaneSanFrancisco 2 weeks ago
My dad told me once that godamn goodyear ballon was a spaceship before I could realise it was a baloon <_< troll dad won
joeydealbuquerq 2 weeks ago
How distasteful....I had to watch a Coca-Cola commercial before I could view this sad report about a brave pilot.
PaulBoss351 2 weeks ago
Helium. Doesn't. Burn.
FYI.
xophertm 2 weeks ago
@xophertm whatever Lana
dtrojan88 1 week ago
totally different then the italian captain of the cruis ship Costa Concordia. He was the first one that got out.
Dofol 3 weeks ago
It should be renamed to GNA "Good Nigger America" because the African American pilot saved white lives. Happy black history month!!!
UberLifeTroll 3 weeks ago
@UberLifeTroll You need to visit your optometrist! The pilot was a WHITE Austrailian!
JonNicc 2 weeks ago
why didnt he jump with the rest of the passengers??
thegrimstock 3 weeks ago
@thegrimstock
because he was making sure when the blimp exploded, the passengers wouldnt be in the way of harm. so he took it away from their area and higher into sky.
Nuclear12331 3 weeks ago
@Nuclear12331 well sounds like suicide to me. how did he think he was going to survive going back into the sky with a burning balloon? id have hovered for a few secs on the ground til the passengers were safe then jumped myself.
thegrimstock 3 weeks ago
@thegrimstock Did you hear where they said that the sudden weight loss caused it to go into the sky before he could jump himself?
JeepRuby101 2 weeks ago
fake cgi
vh90278 3 weeks ago
@vh90278 Isnt all CGI fake? They weren't trying to hide it, lol.
IrieGuitar 2 weeks ago
all just hot air really
australianmade74 3 weeks ago
What a fantastic man.
RedCroc12 3 weeks ago
UFO's brought me here to pay my respects to this true hero, gives me hope for the human race
garyhicks789 3 weeks ago
Those "evil capitalists" are always the first ones to murder everyone with glee, just like that Pilot did!
They're evil and they need to die!
thomaserossi 3 weeks ago
NEIN, NEIN, NEIN!
KhakiChan 3 weeks ago
Hidenburg!
Smoothbluehero 3 weeks ago
Ponies brought me here to pay respects for this brave, brave man!
NSRadication 3 weeks ago
I dunno. It seems like the Gerrys should stay out of the blimp business.
SethKlan 3 weeks ago
The coward captain who saved his own soul on that cruise ship ....should see this.........a true Captain and hero here
curbshoppin 4 weeks ago
@curbshoppin He should have taken notes in captain class like this Hero did..!
hbunnie1120 3 weeks ago
@hbunnie1120 Agreed
curbshoppin 3 weeks ago
HELIUM FILLED BLIMP burst into flames? Kinda defies the law of physics ,, does it not?
ricglos 4 weeks ago
@ricglos Looking at those vids its the canopy in flames not the actual helium filled body, I would suggest more like a fuel fire, they are powered aircraft affer all, and do carry fuel on board :) Hence why the passengers had a strong smell of fuel, its not the helium burning, but its own fuel.
roadsweeper1 4 weeks ago
@ricglos Chemistry anyway.
xophertm 2 weeks ago
Safety Together :/
ColorfulVideoz 1 month ago
that pilot deserves a memorial
KanzakiGNT 1 month ago
R.I.P
TOTAL RESPECT FOR THE PILOT AND A HERO INDEED WHEN HE PUTS OTHER LIVES AHEAD OF HIS OWN!
HIMEESE 1 month ago
R.I.P - Respect for the Pilot
wehehertanto 1 month ago
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The German BND openly persecutes religions.People attending mess are being brainwashed,tortured or murdered by the BND.My brother Markus Bott was murdered on 11.7.09,also because being christian.The German churches already lost 3 Bishops within the first half of 2010 due to campaigns using lies+faked evidence.A 4.Bishop was attacked then.There are rumours that Bishop Dyba was assassinated.Ali Agca who shot at John Paul II lived in Germany before
wwwtotalitaerde 1 month ago
Do they still fly these things? I thought blimps are a thing of the past.
aboodankaboot 1 month ago
@aboodankaboot they have been flying them over liverpool u.k. recently dude ;)
cptskellern 1 month ago
@cptskellern Hmmm... Well this video shows that they still are dangerous, even in rare cases.
aboodankaboot 1 month ago
@aboodankaboot yea i agree i personally wouldn't fly in one :/ but yea it was something to do with radio merseyside and was in the skies all week.
cptskellern 1 month ago
Brave man, only RESPECT
SonoTuaZiaDefunta 1 month ago
Brave man that Michael Nerandzic may god bless his soul
MrJedeko 1 month ago
@MontrealMan1970 you are one sick son of a bitch....people like you deserve to get sucker punched in the throat
Maxlaxflow1 1 month ago
what was he thinking? i would have joined them in jumping off. i guess he was jerkin' to the danger & was too close to climax to abort.
MontrealMan1970 1 month ago
@MontrealMan1970 dude wtf
dmanrox2 1 month ago
@MontrealMan1970 Have some respect you nobhead
Joshs415 1 month ago
@MontrealMan1970 Ok he could have done that, with the risk that the blimp would crash near enough to kill them, but the there was a huge possibility that it would crash into a building causing a bigger fire and disaster killing many more than just one. He did the right thing. An honorable death is the best way to go.
Kongol1000VEVO 1 month ago
OH THE INANITY
(oh the Japanity)
Nightweaver1 1 month ago
they oughta have a cord you can pull and dump all the gas out at once...
vendingdudes 1 month ago
Wonderful pilot and human being. Rest In Peace.
uh1hhuey 1 month ago
this is sad i know but i couldn't help but LOL @ 030 the guy in the middle doing the superman XD
Steve3D27 1 month ago
We hope you have a happy birthday in heaven Michael Nerandzic
Kevinator64 1 month ago
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~Sadly, it is only wish that this most devotedly thoughtful Airship-pilot Capt.-Michael'Nerandzic had been just a bit more mindful of his own life as well, --by having likewise been sufficiently nimble-footed as to have also jumped-ship behind the last escaping passenger; --as the world certainly needs more wonderful people like him! We thus sadly salute your altruistic bravery Captain..!!! ~R.I.P.
AryanKnight 1 month ago
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AryanKnight 1 month ago
So, instead of jumping out of the blimp, saving himself, and running the incredibly slim risk of killing someone else on the ground (honestly, who wouldn't be able to move out of the way of a slow falling blimp.) He decided to steer it into a field, and get burnt to a crisp.... Sounds like a smart chap.
stevenmoor 1 month ago
@stevenmoor I dunno how to read this as a troll or your just being stupid. Hopefully your just trolling...
gh0stsp3ctre 1 month ago
badyear blimp :(
frogjezz 1 month ago
the people jumped?..........
topingtonwilliam1234 1 month ago
@topingtonwilliam1234 yes...........
lilpumpkinhead99 1 month ago
@topingtonwilliam1234 did you listen? the blimp was only a few feet from the ground when they jumped.
Yognaught111 1 month ago
A brave man, R.i.p
LoserLostHisHat 1 month ago
The German BND is the renamed 3rd Reich GESTAPO.The BND had organized the delegate Scheuermann of our county to visit or home.To allow him to personally experience how my brother and our parents had been tortured.The BND continued to torture my brother.He was assassinated on July 11th2009.Half a year after the assassination of my brother the CDU delegate Mappus from our district town Pforzheim was made prime minister of the German land of Baden Würtemberg
The CDU is the ruling party in Germany
wwwtotalitaerde 1 month ago
@wwwtotalitaerde You asshole don't even have enough ethics left in your fat body to spare such a kind of video from your slandering spam-comments. You are a disgrace to humanity and I hope the Grim Reaper sets off to visit you as soon as possible.
xSuperiorManx 1 month ago
A grand man, Rest in Peace, you've certainly earned it.
UroborosTheSnake 1 month ago
those blimps are out to get us im tellin you 2012 stay inside
TheBeefcake96 1 month ago
the humanity
Ainocorrida81 1 month ago
Why do they always have something to do with Germans :p
OCTAN30L1V3R1 1 month ago
why do they keep making these shite airships
doh1959 1 month ago
@doh1959 Well there are hundreds of airline crashes, why do they keep making them? The number of ships that have crashed since the Hindenburg I can count on one hand. The number of planes fill volumes. As well on airship goes down a few people, a 747 you loss 4 to 6 hundred.
That being said, the pilot was a brave and resourceful man.
candr 1 month ago
Hindenburg 2
Volleyballgirl98 2 months ago
@Volleyballgirl98 Not really Hindenburg was a rigid frame craft with 16 bags inside the frame all filled with hydrogen. While this was a single free envelope filled with helium (non burning) while the fire on the Hindenburg burnt because of its lifting gas, this one burnt because of its fuel, the lifting gas would not have caught on fire at all.
candr 1 month ago
For a modern blimp to catch fire and crash, that's odd. I hope they'll find the cause of the fire. I see some irony after finding out this very blimp was called The Spirit of Safety.
germanname1990 2 months ago
@IWASWITHLEGION lolololol
lookintothesky123 2 months ago
what a hero.
R.I.P
NoobSGgrr 2 months ago
@IWASWITHLEGION lol
frankieflash 2 months ago
germans and blimps dont co-exist
HardAsChrome 2 months ago
truly heroic.. wow!
jburm0305 2 months ago
Goodyear are tyres.
Tyres works in land.
What it got to do in the airspace?
Karled2010 2 months ago
@Karled2010 are you serious?
brightblade216 2 months ago
@Karled2010 Dumb or not serious?
gologabob 2 months ago
Please, this was nothing like the Hindenburg. And the Hindenburg didn't have to happen either, had the US not restricted helium sales to Nazi Berlin. Like sanctioning dictators today, the failure to sell safe gas to Germany cost ordinary people their lives and did nothing to stop Hitler. But we never learn do we?
Gryphonalia 2 months ago
Leave it to Youtube commenters to drag your cynical and irrelevant bullshit into every video in the website...
MrFloppyFish 2 months ago
this zeppeling was 1 week on a show on a airfield 100 meters of my house a few days later i here about this crash RIP pilot !
marklins1 2 months ago
I said helium, helium! Not hydrogen!
AGgirldoll 2 months ago
This Aircraft was flying over my house in Frankfurt :(
MrFrankfurt431 2 months ago
GOOD YEAR :D!
SadCarnage1224 2 months ago
he told his passengers to jump ... to where ... assumpton is if they jumped rom that height they would die ....
TheSirSneaky 3 months ago
@TheSirSneaky it was said that they were hovering a few feet from the ground when they jumped
morrisz2 2 months ago
@morrisz2
yeah i listened to it again ... i paied atetion to the words that time ... so i got it.
TheSirSneaky 2 months ago
great man RIP and prayers to his family
bucolic1 3 months ago
The Passenger Jump out of the Blimp. Now the Blimp lost many wight and beginns to climb with more than 2 Ft per Second. I dont understand why the Pilot dont jumps out of the Blimp with the Passenger. A Broken Leg is not so Painful.
We can hear the scriming from the Pilot in the blimp on the Ground. This was so a scary. He scream and scream. The Blimp is Climbing. After 3 Min. The screaming is over. The Fire are catching the Hull an the Blimps Helium going out. The Blimp desents very fast and.
tuthiernichtzursache 3 months ago
@tuthiernichtzursache i would have landed in a place with other people.. Didn't you hear how he steered it AWAY from his ground crew therefor saving more lives?
JillianxBeauty 3 months ago
Definition #PutDaTeamOnMyBack.
MasterMik332 3 months ago
A Hero? Im from Germany. The thru Story. The Pilot have been desent to fast
for landing. The Landing Gear brakes and destroy the Gasolinetank. The Gasoline have been contact to the Hot Engin in the Fire are beginns.
It was a Pliot error. Yes he do a got Job and save his Passenger but it was his mistake.
tuthiernichtzursache 3 months ago
@tuthiernichtzursache can you explane your view better?
wendellb36 3 months ago
@wendellb36
The Pilot from the Goodyear Blimb desent with more than 3Ft per Second. The Blimp hit the Ground with
a sinkrate of 3,5 FT per Second. This was so heavy taht the Landinggear and the Fueltank are broke.
The Blimp desent to fast an hits the Ground.
The Pilot says: We have been crashd. The Passenger says: I can smell Fuel.The Blimp climb with 0,5 Ft per Second. The Fuel Begins to burn (From hot Engine) The Pilot desent the Blimp an says to Passenger at 1 FT High: Jump out, jump out.
tuthiernichtzursache 3 months ago
This guy is a true hero.
kbdkbd99 3 months ago
If he hovered it so low to the ground that the passengers could jump out, then why didnt he just land? Or jump out himself? I don't quite understand, or is that not possible in a blimp?
mrbignose888 3 months ago
Good man. God bless him.
MontChevalier 3 months ago
@pzmaus
It's called a blimp because it IS a blimp. Zeppelins are RIGID airships with internal SPARS to provide structure. Blimps are in essence, gas bags, that have a shape defined by the helium they hold.
lionsgate12345 3 months ago
whys is everyone calling it a ''blimp''? I thought the word was Zeppelin from given from the Germans who inveted them in the first place!
pzmaus 3 months ago
The pilot probably caused it. HA
pliosaurus 3 months ago
@pliosaurus your a frob the pilot did everything he could to save the passengers and it was not his fault because blimps like that suddenly burst into flames....
DriftMachine811 3 months ago
@pliosaurus Learn how to deal with death in a respectful and appropriate manner. What if that was your family member. He is a hero. R.I.P.
NVTrucker 3 months ago
RIP
matthawk911 3 months ago
Hats off to the pilot. Good man. rip
oldfart387 3 months ago
sad, this vid shows how many more people think badly over blimps when there are more plane wrecks in proportion.
MrCasper03 3 months ago
@MrCasper03 Well thats just because theres alot more planes then blimps and alot more people in planes then blimps it's statistics if there were just as much blimps who knows they might be worse might be better depending on the tech at the time eather way I would'nt say eather is worse or better other then blimps are slow and planes arnt blimps are more comfortable while planes arnt.
GUNS4MIKE1234 3 months ago
thats real, the fake was a computer example, STOP TROLLING!!!!!!!!!!
schiefs58 3 months ago
fake bullshit
bobbya16 3 months ago
Why is this compared to the Hindenburg they are completely different types of aircraft its like me comparing a helicopter to a 747.
crazymotionride 4 months ago
@crazymotionride i agree...
PlebScrubber 3 months ago
should of used helium
holanoobs 4 months ago
@holanoobs It did use helium? You'd think after the hindenburg disaster people would still use hydrogen.
zeppship 3 months ago
@zeppship I was researching an airship project at university, turns out that until about 3 years ago hydrogen was banned from all commercial lighter than air craft in the us because of the Hindenburg. However the ban has been lifted allowing the use of hydrogen/inert gas mixtures for lift again. This is actually good news as helium is too expensive and rare to be cost effective and hydrogen has more lifting power. Airships would be an awesome way to travel across the US!
crazymotionride 3 months ago
@zeppship helium doesnt explode. the hindenburg was filled w/ hydrogen
HelluvaBadShot 3 months ago
SAVE LIVES......
LIKE BAUS!
LeBartman 4 months ago
Alles von BILD.DE Klauen ja ....
Aber uns als Nazis bezeichnen weill wir eure filme auf Deutsch Übersetzten OMFG!
FirewallMT2 4 months ago
Someone suggested the main envelope exploded. With no allowance, the pressure would increase as the blimp went higher and this would cause the envelope to rupture. However, this doesn't happen because there are equalizer bags inside the envelope which inflate and deflate to maintain an even pressure. The fire simply burned through the envelope (which is rubberized canvas) and allowed the helium to escape.
scientious 4 months ago
A Goodyear blimp is normally trimmed to about 50 lbs of weight. You fly with a slight nose up attitude to generate lift. Even one person jumping off would have changed the trim to buoyant. Several jumping off would have made it more than 300 lbs buoyant. The pilot can vent helium but not very quickly, not the way a regular balloon can vent hot air when it touches down. These blimps also cannot pivot the engines to point downward to create downward thrust.
scientious 4 months ago
na only joking that pilot was brave doing that though,
TheRoyalSnail 4 months ago
It was me i thought it would be fun to shoot it with an air riffle, i didnt exspect it to burst into flames though
TheRoyalSnail 4 months ago
HERO
MrSchpankme 4 months ago
Dose anywone know why it crashed yet? I'm getting sick/tired of waiting for an answer
zeppship 4 months ago
@zeppship You are sick and tired of having to wait for an answer to why it happed? Think of the pilots poor family. Yes, it would be nice to know why, but to be sick and tired of waiting?
geezah22 4 months ago
@geezah22 I'ts not that i dont care about the pilot or his family. The crash is tragic, i know. But what i want to know most is why on earth it happened.
zeppship 4 months ago
Just amazing!
Sal
TheVideostunad 4 months ago
What an unselfish man. RIP...
kfordjake75 4 months ago
@kfordjake75 The word you're looking for is selfless, you stupid prick. I hope you die in a fire like the old guy.
barrab 4 months ago
@barrab Unselfish (adj) : generous; a person who is not selfish. Example: She is a very unselfish woman. Selfless (adj) : having no concern for self. Info provided by m-w.com (Merriam Webster).
kfordjake75 4 months ago
the others guys jumped with parachute or without?
muttley077 4 months ago
@muttley077 He hovered a few feet above the ground so they jumped without. Parachutes are not kept on aircraft because they are unnecessary.
ScientificExploits 4 months ago
hella heroic
Bronson9100 5 months ago
Surely he could have jumped out WITH the passengers :-/
1madaboutguitar 5 months ago
@1madaboutguitar he had to keep the blimp close to the ground so the others could get off. if he also had time to escape, he would have.
Enkazed 5 months ago
CNN has reported the Pilot WAS in fact DRUNK !!!
32 people now dead on the ground cause this OLD man pilot was allowed to
fly drunk ....
apatheticempathy 5 months ago
@apatheticempathy which somehow caused a fire...
Enkazed 5 months ago
@apatheticempathy whether he had had a drink or not, he still did the right thing once the trouble came. kudos to his thinking of himself last. in that aspect he was a true Captain.
revpgesq 4 months ago in playlist Season 2011
@apatheticempathy What?!?! Nobody died, only the pilot died! He brought his passengers to safety first, that's why there aren't any dead! Only himself! Now, about being "drunk", he had 2 coupes of champagne! 2 small glasses! ALSO, the 32 or 36 people who are death, that accident happened in !!1937!!, with the Hindenburg! That accident happened in America, in New Jersey, in 1937! This one happened on the 12th June 2011, in Germany! It was caused by a fuel leak, not of his 2 glasses of champagne!
periesicsd 4 months ago
@apatheticempathy Didn't you understand the news, what they said? What about history? Not your strongest side, right!?!? That disaster with the Hindenburg is the most famous blimp accident. Now, the Goodyear blimp had a malfuntion, and that caused a fuel leak, causing the fuel to catch fire on the hot engine parts. And the pilot was not drunk at all! He steered the blimp away from the people on the gound, and some houses, so he saved even more lives. So, have a little of respect. He's dead now.
periesicsd 4 months ago
I have seen the blimp just minutes befor it crashed flying over my hometown, one of my employees hous was next to the field were it went down, she has seen it from here living room and heard him crying in the flames as he died in the flames
nagmashot 5 months ago
wow true hero rip
brrrrvd 5 months ago
it's always a day before something
SmoothCriminalAaron 5 months ago
For "sensitivity" reasons as YT is "forever" (regarding his kids) get a DIFFERENT VOICE OVER GUY TO READ IT. This guy sounds like a comic book arch-nemesis.
OctoBox 5 months ago
why dident he jump the same time as the passengers?
jamie123ginge 5 months ago
''Safety first'' Irony much?
rotjesenmatjes 5 months ago
With all the concern over HSE these days what happened to parrachutes? None on board or not enough?
AllanVich 8 months ago
With all seriousness, and I apologize to anybody that I may offend. But the guy who started talking at 0:15 sounds like Hagrid.
Gloocoos4 8 months ago
@Gloocoos4 it definately sounds just like hagrid.
jimihendrixtribute 5 months ago
@Gloocoos4 omg ur right! HP::Y DHIT
M4sk3dC4sp3r 5 months ago
WHY WHY IS IT allways takes someone to die SO They CAN REcogniZE him as the real hero HE IS ?
TheUndercoverboss01 8 months ago
what a hero
taliewacker2007 8 months ago
hero
emptywendysbag 8 months ago
what a hero
MrKhody 8 months ago
Still trying to figure out what went wrong???
my first guess would be because it caught on fire
kldirectv2 8 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
COMPLETE LIES. GOVERNMENT COVER UP! HOW DO YOU FLOAT ABOVE THE GROUND AND THAN CRASH FROM THE SKY? Because a few people got off it went straight up? no.
jackylegs93 8 months ago
@jackylegs93 Either someone's trying to be funny, or they don't understand the basic physics of ballast vs. lift.
gguru1 8 months ago