November 18, 2025
Though one of the most famous aerial disasters in history, the Hindenburg explosion had 62 survivors out of the 97 passengers. Radio journalist and eyewitness Herb Morrison famously declared “Oh, the humanity!” when he first saw the fireball. Later in the recording, after finding out there were survivors, he said, “I hope that it isn’t as bad as I made it sound at the very beginning.”
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The Hindenburg, Before and After Disaster
On the evening of May 6, 1937, spectators and reporters gathered at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey to catch a glimpse of the cutting edge of air travel. The German airship LZ-129—better known as the Hindenburg—was landing. At 804 feet long (more than three times the length of a Boeing
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