HINDENBURG DISASTER
Department's Final Report (Received 22, 2.15 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 21. The Department of Commerce, in its final report on the Hindenburg disaster, attributed the explosion to a discharge of electrostatic electricity igniting the mixture of free hydrogen and air accumulating in the upper stern following a leak of hydrogen from the vicinity of cells four and five.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 158, 22 July 1937, Page 5
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