Comments on: The Hindenburg – What Happened?

By: Who wants to know

Who wants to know — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:34:51 +0000

The people who lived must have jumped off at the last seconed cause it was too high to when it first caught on fire

By: Dan at airships.net

Dan at airships.net — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:40:33 +0000

Great analysis! There is a lot of nonsense about the Hindenburg in the internet, so it’s great to see such a well reasoned and factual analysis. Nice job, Stacy.

http://www.airships.net/hindenburg/disaster

By: AshleyG-Virus

AshleyG-Virus — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:43:36 +0000

>.> People can still be an eye-witness and not be on the blimp during the accident, most likely the writer was refering to someone, or many people for that matter that saw the explosion from below. Or from quite a distance.

By: Orjan

Orjan — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:55:59 +0000

@Robolasse

Not all airliner crashes result in everyone dieing.

By: ted

ted — Sat, 09 May 2009 03:31:23 +0000

And everyone knows they weren’t watching St Elmo’s Fire that day. I think they were showing The Breakfast Club.

By: ted

ted — Sat, 09 May 2009 03:30:11 +0000

It’s safer to be in the (I think it’s called) gondola of a zeppelin, since all the flammable part is in a separate part of the airship, above you. The heat would travel upwards, as well.

In an airplane, you’re in the same structure as the incredibly flammable plane fuel, travelling a heck of a lot faster.

By: Thingo

Thingo — Fri, 08 May 2009 06:34:18 +0000

Who was the fool who decided to fill the thing with a highly flammable gas?

By: Robolasse

Robolasse — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:25:47 +0000

“saying that he saw St. Elmo’s fire just before the fire fully broke out. Not the ‘80s movie starring Demi Moore and Rob Lowe, the actual electrical weather phenomenon” LOL

64% survived! Actually its safer to crash and explode in flames on a hydrogen filled 1930´s zeppeliner than a modern passenger plane?

By: farang

farang — Thu, 07 May 2009 04:58:55 +0000

I’m corn-fused:

How does the example of static charge build up on very dry days relate to the Hindenburg flying through a storm front with “light rain”?

Doesn’t that kinda make it “wet”?

By: mav

mav — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:46:06 +0000

No one has blamed neocons yet? How odd.

By: Frau

Frau — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:12:20 +0000

@ christophe – those were the people that did not jump out.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:59:40 +0000

The most amazing fact is that a whopping 64% of the people in the Hindenburg survived!

By: Frau

Frau — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:21:27 +0000

I thought this had been solved by NASA.
It was on a Secrets of the Dead or something like that. ??

By: BJN

BJN — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:24:56 +0000

“As it landed, the Hindenburg dispelled hydrogen to lessen its weight and land.”

Let’s see here. An airship becomes *lighter* in order to land? No. Venting hydrogen and replacing the volume light gas with air makes the ship heavier.

By: Jim Barrett

Jim Barrett — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:57:39 +0000

Definite knowledge of what happened is precluded by the Hindenburg Uncertainty Principle.

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:56:19 +0000

@Alex

You see (points to the tail fin on fire)… there’s your problem. Like they said, a spark must have ignited from a release of gas.

By: Emily_Jane

Emily_Jane — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:55:42 +0000

Not everyone aboard the Hindenburg died. There were 97 passengers on board during that flight, and 35 of those passengers died.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:26:47 +0000

Sorry, I couldn’t resist, either

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:14:47 +0000

All dead on the air ship makes sence, but damn, being that one guy on the ground. What are the odds of that?

By: seefish3

seefish3 — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:14:46 +0000

A zepplin blew up in “The Rocketeer” as well (a great story that Disney ruined with it’s usual re-write…the dopes!)

By: Gail Pink

Gail Pink — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:01:16 +0000

How could there be a recorded eyewitness account if everybody aboard died in the fire?