Hindenburg: Titanic of the Sky

A video of the tragic crash of the Hindenburg (LZ-129, Luft Zeppelin 129), May 6th, 1937, at Lakehurst, New Jersey. It is real footage digitally remastered with added color.
I do not own this video. Vidicom owns and produced it. It can be seen on their website here:
http://www.vidicom-tv.com/hindenburg/
Note: Quicktime 7 is needed to view it at the above address.

Radio Broadcast by Herbert Morrison (as seen on Wikipedia at the time of this posting, caps are what is heard in this video):

"It's practically standing still now. They've dropped ropes out of the nose of the ship, and they've been taken a hold of down on the field by a number of men. It's starting to rain again; it's—the rain had slacked up a little bit. The back motors of the ship are just holding it just, just enough to keep it from —
'IT BURST INTO FLAMES!'
It burst into flames, and it's falling, it's crashing! Watch it! Watch it, folks! Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Get this, Charlie! Get this, Charlie! It's fire—and it's crashing! It's crashing terrible!
'OH, MY, GET OUT OF THE WAY, PLEASE! IT'S BURNING AND BURSTING INTO FLAMES,'
and the—and it's falling on the mooring-mast and all the folks agree that this is terrible,
'THIS IS THE WORST OF THE WORST CATASTROPHES IN THE WORLD.'
Ohhhhh! It's--it's--it's the flames, [indecipherable, 'enty' syllable] oh, four- or five-hundred feet into the sky and it ... it's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. It's smoke, and it's flames now ... and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring-mast.
'OH, THE HUMANITY AND ALL THE PASSENGERS SCREAMING AROUND HERE. I TOLD YOU, I CAN'T EVEN TALK TO PEOPLE WHOSE FRIENDS ARE ON THERE. AH! IT'S--IT'S--IT'S--IT'S ... O--OHHH! I--I CAN'T TALK, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.'
Honest, it's just laying there, a mass of smoking wreckage. Ah! And everybody can hardly breathe and talk, and the screaming. Lady,
'I--I'M SORRY.'
Honest: I--I can hardly breathe. I--I'm going to step inside, for I cannot see it. Charlie, that's terrible. Ah, ah—I can't. I, listen, folks, I--I'm gonna have to stop for a minute because I've lost my voice. This is the worst thing I've ever witnessed."

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Hindenburg
• Crash
• Vidicom
• Lakehurst
• New
• Jersey
• Airfield
• Zeppelin
• Disaster
• Remastered
• Color
• 1937
• Luft
• 129
• LZ-129

[deeeEeEEEeEee33eem]

Y is that EVERY grand creation the Titanic, The Himdebrug gotta hav some distastrious ending!?

more recently the Twin Towers.

[PahangDragonbird]

@35westst this is a documentary. It was the first time they met each other but not the first time Werner Franz, the Cabin Boy, had spoken out. It was the first time Werner Doehner spoke out though.

It's very hard for them to talk about this tragedy. Doehner did a few interviews starting with this one but never talked about it again because he was disappointed with one of these documentaries.

[35westst]

They "spoke out"? Is the movie implying a terrible secret has been kept? I think more like they simply "spoke," which is fine; but no since making it overly dramatic.

[drucker1100]

im german die armen enschen

[mrroboto5785]

@mcmlxvi Ironically that was the fate of the passengers of the British rigid airship R101, it crashed over night, while most were asleep, which is why only six people survived that, this was a few years before the Hindenburg.

[krugerfuchs]

everyone forgets the dog

[mcmlxvi]

@brandini555 Nobody was in bed, they were about to land, that's why most of the passengers could get away with minor injuries since they were already at the windows watching the landing manuever.

[brandini555]

shit that was scary fast, not enough to get out of bed before the fire reaches yer room..