Nearing the fatal end of her first Atlantic
trip of the season, the Hindenburg approaches
the mooring mast at Lakehurst. Twenty one
of these trial (?)voyages, the world's biggest
dirigible has made, so safely, so surely that the
experimental service has become a matter of
routine. Scarcely a hundred feet above ground,
the giant airship with her framework encasing
seven million cubic feet of inflammable gas,
is being carefully manoeuvred towards her
hanger, when suddenly...
The inexplicable, appaling tragedy is a matter
of seconds. It seems almost incredible that
anyone should escape, yet two thirds of those
on board survived what is, next to the R101
disaster, the worst in the history of aviation.
