THE HINDENBURG DISASTER
[N 1937 on May 6 33 people lost their lives when the German dirigible Hindenburg exploded and crashed on the ground at Lakehurst, New Jersey, in swift fierce flames fed by the airship’s 7,300,000 cubic feet of hydrogen. The story of this tragedy, which marked the end of experiments in passenger airships, will be heard at 8.30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, frém,the four ZB stations. The programme, which describes the deStruction of the great airship after 135,000 miles of air travel and twentyone crossings of the North Atlantic, is one in the series This Was the
Week, In 1936 the Hindenburg had made several trips between Frankfurt on Main, Germany, and Lakehurst, New Jersey, averaging on the east-bound trip 52 hours and on the west-bound 64 hours. The flight which was to prove fatal began on May 3, 1937, there being 97 persons on board. A few seconds after arriving over the New Jersey landing-field the Hindenburg exploded, and what had been spoken of as the world’s greatest airship was reduced in a matter of minutes to a crumpled metal framework and a dying glow in the sky.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 669, 2 May 1952, Page 21
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192THE HINDENBURG DISASTER New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 669, 2 May 1952, Page 21
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