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    The Hindenburg disaster was an airship accident that occurred on May 6, 1937, in Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States. The LZ 129 Hindenburg (Luftschiff...
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    LZ 129 Hindenburg (Luftschiff Zeppelin #129; Registration: D-LZ 129) was a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of its class...
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  • the scene of the Hindenburg disaster Problems playing this file? See media help. Newsreel footage of the 6 May 1937 Hindenburg disaster, where the zeppelin...
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  • 1928 Hindenburg disaster Hindenburg disaster newsreel footage Hindenburg Kaserne, a former military base near Würzburg, Franconia, Germany Hindenburg light...
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  • Anderson in 2017. Named after the 1937 Hindenburg disaster, which they characterize as a human-made avoidable disaster, the firm generates public reports...
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  • The Hindenburg is a 1975 American Technicolor disaster film based on the 1937 Hindenburg disaster. The film stars George C. Scott. It was produced and...
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  • Herbert Morrison (journalist) (category LZ 129 Hindenburg)
    broadcast his dramatic report of the Hindenburg disaster, a catastrophic fire that destroyed the LZ 129 Hindenburg zeppelin on May 6, 1937, killing 35...
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  • The Hindenburg disaster has featured in a variety of popular culture films, TV programs and books. The Hindenburg is a 1975 film about the disaster. Although...
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  • Werner Doehner (category LZ 129 Hindenburg)
    and American electrical engineer and last living survivor of the Hindenburg disaster, when the German passenger-carrying rigid airship caught fire and...
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    The two Hindenburg-class airships were hydrogen-filled, passenger-carrying rigid airships built in Germany in the 1930s and named in honor of Paul von...
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    Ben Dova (category LZ 129 Hindenburg)
    Man (1976). Dova was a passenger on board the LZ 129 Hindenburg during the Hindenburg disaster and escaped using his acrobatic skills. The FBI investigated...
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  • Max Pruss (category LZ 129 Hindenburg)
    was the captain of the Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg on its last voyage and a surviving crew member of the disaster. Max Pruss was born in 1891 in Sgonn,...
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    Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (2 October 1847 – 2 August 1934) was a German military leader and statesman who led the Imperial...
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    transatlantic revenue service, including the famous LZ 129 Hindenburg. Following the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 the DZR stopped transatlantic service, although...
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    1922 – August 13, 2014) was the cabin boy aboard the ill-fated LZ 129 Hindenburg which crashed on May 6, 1937. At the time of the crash he was only 14...
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    high winds made that impossible and the plan was abandoned. The Hindenburg disaster in 1937, along with political and economic developments in Germany...
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    R101 (redirect from Beauvais Air Disaster)
    of 48 lives was more than the 36 killed in the much better-known Hindenburg disaster of 1937, though fewer than the 52 killed in the French military Dixmude...
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    airship was abruptly ended by the destruction of the Hindenburg by fire on 6 May 1937. The disaster not only destroyed the biggest zeppelin in the world...
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  • The Hindenburg Omen was a proposed technical analysis pattern, named after the Hindenburg disaster of May 6, 1937. It was created by Jim Miekka, who believed...
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    the intended destination of the rigid airship LZ 129 Hindenburg prior to the Hindenburg disaster on May 6, 1937, when it burned while landing. Built in...
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    Ernst A. Lehmann (category LZ 129 Hindenburg)
    maneuvers that compromised the airships. He was a victim of the Hindenburg disaster in 1937. Ernst Lehmann was born in 1886 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein...
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  • soured during the Nazi era, particularly following the high-profile Hindenburg disaster. Its airships were grounded and scrapped in 1940 to produce fixed-wing...
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    Retrieved 9 June 2018. "8 Disaster Tourism Sites". Popular Mechanics. 30 August 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2018. "The Hindenburg Disaster | Airships.net". Airships...
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    transatlantic route while the Hindenburg would continue flying the North American route. Following the Hindenburg disaster in May 1937, Dr. Hugo Eckener...
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    Heinrich Kubis (category LZ 129 Hindenburg)
    serving as the world's first flight attendant and for surviving the Hindenburg disaster. Kubis trained as a waiter and worked in several luxury hotels in...
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  • the disaster of the Hindenburg, and the investigation that followed. It aired on May 6, 2007, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the disaster. It...
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    propaganda tool. The airship was withdrawn from service after the Hindenburg disaster in 1937, and scrapped for military aircraft production in April 1940...
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    Lakehurst Maxfield Field (category LZ 129 Hindenburg)
    two Base Deputy Commanders. Lakehurst field was the site of the Hindenburg disaster in 1937. Lakehurst Maxfield Field's history began as a test range...
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  • Addison Bain (category LZ 129 Hindenburg)
    postulating the Incendiary Paint Theory (IPT), which posits that the Hindenburg disaster was caused by the electrical ignition of lacquer- and metal-based...
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    airships flew, until the Hindenburg disaster of 1937. Eckener was in Graz, Austria when he heard news of the Hindenburg disaster on 6 May 1937. In the official...
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