May 6: Hindenburg airship disaster and mysterious causes are answered after 76 years

This horrific accident killed 35 people out of 97 people on board and ended the era of hot air balloons.

The Hindenburg disaster was an event that took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937 when the famous LZ 129 Hindenburg hot air balloon caught fire at a milestone and burned down when it landed on a flight departing from Frankfurt, Germany to New Jersey, USA.This horrific accident killed 35 people out of 97 people on board and ended the era of hot air balloons.

Hindenburg airship comes from Frankfurt on the afternoon of May 3 to begin a series of 10 consecutive trips between Europe and the US in the second year that it was officially put into operation. The ship took hours to cross Boston on the morning of the 6th and eventually reached Lakehurst after a few hours later due to a storm. Seeing the bad weather conditions, Captain Max Pruss was forced to circle through Manhattan and that made a curious crowd flock to the street to admire the giant ship.

Hindenburg is the largest balloon in history and this is also the most catastrophic disaster

After arriving at a safer area around 4:00 pm, Max Pruss drove the ship around New Jersey so that passengers could see the city from above while they waited for better weather. . At about 6:22, the storm and the direct ship heading to Lakehurst after nearly half a day later than scheduled.

Around 7pm local time, at an altitude of about 200m, Hindenburg began landing at Naval Lakehurst airport. They were forced to land high , known as flying moor , because the ship would drop the rope and shove from above to hook it later into the milestone. This way of landing saved a great deal of labor, but it took more time than usual.

Fire spreads from the stern, causing the entire balloon to burn, leaving only the frame.

When about 200 feet from the ground (about 60m), the balloon suddenly burned violently from the tail. It was about 7:25. The fire began to burn from the tail of Hindenburg and spread to the top of the train quickly due to the explosive hydrogen gas . The tail caught fire, the ship lost its balance and crashed into the ground. People standing nearby fled.

The cause of the fire to this day remains a mystery, although many assumptions have been made to explain the reasons for the fire and the fire spread to the fuel of the ship. This event destroyed the public's confidence with giant balloons.

By 2013, the official cause of the accident was officially announced. New US scientists have drawn conclusions about the cause of the accident of this legendary balloon, which is static . Experts have suggested that the ship has flown into a cloud of electricity, leading to fire and explosion.