Tragic End To First Atlantic Flight For 1937
MANY SURVIVORS FATALLY HURT (Received 8, 8.45 ai.ni.)1 NEW YORK, May 7. Tlie Gernmn Zeppelin Hindenburg, the largest airship frer built, exploded while landing at Lakehurst, Nctv Jersey, Jreeterday, on the conclusion of the first trans-Atlantic fligbt of tbe aeason, and crashed in a blazing mass of wreckage. Therewere 97 people on board, including 36 passengers end » crew of 61. The latest figures state that 33 are believed to be dead. Nineteen bodies have been recovered. Sixtyfour eecaped plive, of whom 29 were passengers. The former commander . of the Hindenburg, Captain Lehmann, who was on board, was severely burned and his Ooodition is critical. The present commander, Captam Preuss, was felso seriously injured.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 95, 8 May 1937, Page 6
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