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What Really Caused the Hindenburg Disaster?
« on: May 06, 2017, 11:29:21 am »
What Really Caused the Hindenburg Disaster?
By Tereza Pultarova, Live Science Contributor | May 5, 2017 11:47am ET
 
On May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg airship became engulfed in flames and crashed to the ground as it attempted to land at the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
 

When the massive Hindenburg airship made its debut, it was heralded as the future of luxury air travel, but after a trans-Atlantic flight on May 6, 1937, the German passenger airship was suddenly engulfed in flames and crashed as it attempted to land at the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey. The disaster killed 35 people and became a symbol of the end of the airship era.

Now, 80 year later, speculation still swirls about what happened on that fateful evening in May, so what is it that brought down the Hindenburg?

http://www.livescience.com/58987-why-caused-the-hindenburg-disaster.html
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Re: What Really Caused the Hindenburg Disaster?
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2017, 01:16:43 pm »
Not worth reading.  Does a lot of handwaving and dismisses it as just a standard static electric spark that set off the hydrogen. 
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Re: What Really Caused the Hindenburg Disaster?
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2017, 01:32:35 pm »
The same thing that sank the Titanic brought the Hindenburg down. 
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Re: What Really Caused the Hindenburg Disaster?
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2017, 01:36:28 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on May 06, 2017, 01:32:35 pm
The same thing that sank the Titanic brought the Hindenburg down. 

Aliens?
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Re: What Really Caused the Hindenburg Disaster?
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2017, 02:06:16 pm »
Quote from: Oceander on May 06, 2017, 01:36:28 pm
Aliens?


That is my fall back position.  Right after man's complacency and arrogance and ego as the key factors in both disasters
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Re: What Really Caused the Hindenburg Disaster?
« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2017, 03:13:58 pm »
It was Trump.
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« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2017, 05:13:39 pm »
It was a steward sneaking off for a cigarette after 3 days of demanding, entitled passengers.  :tongue2:
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« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2017, 05:18:37 pm »
Quote from: EC on May 06, 2017, 05:13:39 pm
It was a steward sneaking off for a cigarette after 3 days of demanding, entitled passengers.  :tongue2:

Must've been a Brit.  :smokin:
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« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2017, 05:22:54 pm »
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« Reply #9 on: May 06, 2017, 05:26:25 pm »
Quote from: EC on May 06, 2017, 05:22:54 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEkhs6n37RI

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« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2017, 05:33:04 pm »
Quote from: Oceander on May 06, 2017, 05:18:37 pm
Must've been a Brit.  :smokin:

No, cause then it would've been a fag.
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Re: What Really Caused the Hindenburg Disaster?
« Reply #11 on: May 06, 2017, 05:49:01 pm »
Some Germans lighting farts.
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« Reply #12 on: May 06, 2017, 06:30:43 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on May 06, 2017, 05:49:01 pm
Some Germans lighting farts.
I don't care who you are....that's funny right there.   ^-^
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Re: What Really Caused the Hindenburg Disaster?
« Reply #13 on: May 06, 2017, 06:38:16 pm »
In all seriousness.   The conspiracy theories continue to this day.  Was it deliberate? An accident?
There is no definitive answer.
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Re: What Really Caused the Hindenburg Disaster?
« Reply #14 on: May 06, 2017, 07:06:31 pm »
Aliens
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Re: What Really Caused the Hindenburg Disaster?
« Reply #15 on: May 07, 2017, 12:56:05 am »
Quote from: Wingnut on May 06, 2017, 02:06:16 pm

That is my fall back position.  Right after man's complacency and arrogance and ego as the key factors in both disasters

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Re: What Really Caused the Hindenburg Disaster?
« Reply #16 on: May 07, 2017, 02:16:06 am »
What Really Caused the Hindenburg Disaster?

Oh I don't know - filling a football field-sized condom with pure hydrogen and flying it into a lightning storm perhaps?


It was aliens.

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