Name: Facts About the Hindenburg and Its Untimely Demise
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You're probably familiar with a rock and roll type of Zeppelin.

But there was a time when the original Zeppelins, flying

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dirigible airships named after the German count who invented

them, ruled the skies for both warfare and passenger flights

These flying bags of hydrogen were an engineering

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is fairly well known as part of modern history.

of Germany's rigid dirigible airships colloquially known

Although they were popular war machines during World War I,

the Hindenburg was actually a passenger airship

making its way to Manchester Township, New Jersey,

Containing 16 large bags full of flammable hydrogen

gas in its envelope, the ship was basically

As the Hindenburg made its final approach, tragedy struck.

The Zeppelin caught fire, then slammed into a tower,

bursting into flames, and crashed onto the landing field

The crash of the Hindenburg led to the deaths

the fatality of at least one of the ground crew.

The Hindenburg's commander, Captain Max Pruss,

decided to delay landing due to the storm.

dropped its landing ropes about 180 feet from the ground

just before the incident that ignited the fire.

Most witnesses saw the first flames at 7:25 PM,

and the fire quickly spread over the next minute consuming

Some reports say that once the airship caught fire,

it took 32 seconds from the initial signs of distress

Whether it was a stray lightning bolt, static electricity,

or even a bit of good old fashioned anti-Nazi sabotage,

the fate of the Hindenburg captured public imagination

largely thanks to the eyewitness testimony

of a reporter who was present at the time

The hydrogen on the Hindenburg was a fast-burning gas

that held the ship aloft as it flew through the sky.

Out of the 97 people aboard the airship as it was engulfed

in flames, only 13 passengers, 22 crewmen, and a single worker

on the ground actually died during the disaster.

Per several accounts of the mayhem, some passengers

were forced to leap from the airship in an attempt

they were near the ground, so some of the jumpers

Other jumpers met an untimely end when they either did not

survive the jump, or the burning airship landed on top of them.

were not burn victims, as only two unlucky people succumbed

These two passengers were very likely close

to the fire's origin, one survivor, Werner Doehner,

told People Magazine, a few years before he passed,

As his family sat in the port side dining room

approached the mooring mast and dropped its landing ropes.

for a replacement roll of camera film when the fire struck.

Doehner told the AP, "Suddenly, the air was on fire.

My mother took my brother and threw him out.

She grabbed me and fell back and then threw me out.

She tried to get my sister, but she was too heavy,

and my mother decided to get out by the time the Zeppelin was

He lost his father and sister in the disaster,

but his mother survived with a broken hip.

Doehner was burned on his face, both hands, and down

has blisters once the family made it to the infirmary.

Speaking in 2017, Doehner reflected on the disaster.

"The internet and social media has exposed and attracted

the interest of a younger generation," he said,

"The Hindenburg is something you don't forget."

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