One bit he leaves out is that the smoking room was designed to be completely fireproof so anyone who wanted to smoke can go in there without the fear of causing the ship to burst into flame. So as reckless as he makes it sound, the builder's intention was absolute security and safety as well as comfort. Of course, passengers were obligated to hand over their lighters. Another note he leaves out involves the weather conditions. Before the Hindenburg could land at Lakehurst, New Jersey, there was a storm that kept them from landing. Falling behind schedule, the captain ordered one or two hard turns trying to maneuver the ship into place. It was later discovered that the Hindenburg's tail was not designed for such sharp turns. So, adding 17 round trips of rust to the equation, the strain from the sharp turns would be enough to cause one of the cables to snap and rip open either sacks four or five. However, hydrogen mixing with oxygen is not enough to cause an explosion. It still needs a spark. And because it was storming, the sky was electrified. In turn, the Hindenburg's skeleton being made of steel, which is a conductive metal, also becomes electrified. But for the moment, the airship was still in the sky and therefore insulated from the ground. But then, the captain orders the anchors to be dropped; and when they touch ground, the ship is no longer insulated. The Hindenburg is now one, big, floating lightning rod! The electric charge within the steel frame of the ship immediately starts to travel downward, lighting up the deadly mixture along the way. On a side note, why did the fire burn bright orange when hydrogen burns clear and has no color while hydrogen mixed with oxygen burns a lime green color? The answer could be due to the weatherproof paint they used to cover the outer fabric of the airship and perhaps even the rust resistant paint used for the steel frame.

39 of the crew survived only to become conscripted into the most brutal Military and War of modern times.

They had a smoking room 🚬 On a hydrogen ship 💣

I’ve actually looked into this thing cause this disaster alway fascinated me. It couldn’t have been sabotage. The crew took every precaution before it left the ground. They even took a toy from a child because it produced sparks. It still puzzles me what could have happened though.

This would be so cool if this were flying today. I'd love to travel across the Atlantic in that.

My grandparents actually had pictures of this crashing on Fire! That’s actually the FIRST picture I ever saw of the Hindenburg!! Of coarse, no one knows where those pictures disappeared too:(

It obviously had a leak in the rear as they were dumping ballast (water) to level the ship while landing. As stated, there was an eye witness talking about seeing the shell of the ship rippling. What caused the ignition??? IDK....unless hydrogen and oxygen mixing can cause a spontaneous combustion??? Maybe some of the steel cables were rubbing and caused a small spark???

Isn't there a part two? This video just sets up the perfect storm prior to ignition. But the final necessary component would be a catalyst to actually spark the fire (smoking rooms were enclosed, so that wasn't it). The final piece was electromagnetism: static electricity from passing through an electrical storm prior to landing, light rain, and electrons moving via the mooring ropes.

It's no coincidence that the fire started right after the mooring lines touched the ground and that it was a stormy day. The static buildup from flying near storms discharged and ignited the leaking H2

Whatever caused it to explode? It made the greatest album cover EVER! Led Zeppelin I

One word: Hydrogen.

wow you made the stuffs inside looks so awsome! :)

“Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.” ― Robert Heinlein

My bad guys, I really wanted to smoke a bogey out on the balcony

When I was arrested for the first time in 2009, I designed a space liner that measured 7,920 feet from stem to stern. I named her the Hindenburg, to symbolically represent my life crashing down in flames around me.

fun drinking game. take a shot every time he mentions the hydrogen gas bags

The thing that boggles my mind is how many people actually survived. When you watch the footage it looks as if every single person is dying on that thing. So if SO much of the crew survived how do they not have information on what happened? Not ONE crew member had any information on what went wrong? So strange. Imagine today if a plane went down and the pilots survived and nobody asked them about what the hell happened, lol. Yes, I know some will say "It's difference because planes now have so much technology they could see what happened easier!" But STILL not one crew member not knowing anything that went wrong is definitely an oddity.

It was the hard S turn they made that put stress on the vehicle and caused the gas leak.

Who else got this recommended on Christmas eve?

I know this only after this

I loved the intro it is peaceful

So… nobody is gonna question the fact that neither iron nor steel will rust to a degree of a possible structural failure in a matter of a few days? Sure those cables were exposed to salty water vapor, but there's no way it could corrode any material in such a short amount of time.

I know someone who have piece of the Hindenburg taken from the crash site, unfortunately impossible to authenticate it.

I've watched a few videos on the Hindenburg disaster & I have to say that this one is beautifully animated. Great Job!

Speaking of aircraft and fire: A hot air balloonist once told me the first hot air balloon was made by 2 men, brothers, in France. They manufactured wallpaper. So the first hot air balloon was made of wall paper. I'm sure they must of treated the paper with something that made it less flammable but serious: "Hey, lets light a fire under a big paper bag and go flying around." Why does this sound like a terrible idea?

Grate history

It was that gas was leaking mixing with air, and a spark from static made it explode

It simple the moment the damp rope hit the ground static electricity, that's why she blew on the opposite side!

I'm willing to bet that all that iron and aluminum together might have also created a bit of thermite type reaction once things started burning and mixing

It’s funny that a lot of disasters the people who made the thing say nothing could go wrong and then everything goes wrong Like the titanic and Hindenburg

TOO ALL THE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THE SMOKING ROOM THEY HAD ONE ELECTRIC LIGHTER MOUNTED ON THE WALL AND THE ROOM WAS PRESSURIZED SO NO HYDROGEN COULD GET IN

1:21 That's gotta hurt!

So this was the air craft version of titanic.

Why is there no video footage of the ship catching fire? Why does the footage only show the ship when it's engulfed in flames and falling to ground? Very suspicious

💔“Oh the humanities”💔

It’s a shame because it had so much potential 😢😢😢😢

How did they deal with the possibility of static electricity,?

The total of deaths from the airship. 35🔥

Have you heard they’re bringing these things back

No mention of the unfortunate chemistry of iron oxide and aluminum??

In Engineering, continuous tension and relaxation is called cyclical loading and this causes fatigue failure. I am sure the Nazi designers would have checked the SN curves and established the fatigue life of the steel wires. Therefore, this aspect has to be ruled out. Rusting of steelwires is well known, and before every flight these wires would have been inspected. Therefore, this aspect also has to be ruled out. The 3rd option to be considered is a bird hit which caused the outer skin to be punctured and the bird getting entangled in the steel wire holding the cotton H2 bags. A live bird with a sharp beak could have then punctured the cotton bag leading to a hydrogen leak.

My goodness 😳

I always wondered what caused the Henningberg to crash in to flame's

"First Class" was much less impressive back then.

It might be of the smoke 💨 from them or Maybe the glass or something cracked a bit to do it.

Hold on a second there with the 5 Star, thats a big statement.

I didn't know there were any survivors.

Came here after the Hindenburg report on Adani.

I just looked for some facts. - The Hindenburg had 36 passengers and 61 crew. Almost twice as many crew as passengers. That does not sound very efficient or economical. (Compare that to cruise ships or aircraft.) - it only took 55 hours to cross the atlantic. Not really bad time. - out of 97 people on board, 62 survived; 64%. Compare that to some plane crashes. - the percentage of deaths was basically identical; about 64% of passengers, 64% of the crew.

Maybe the people that smoke costed it

It was Eva in the smoking room with a stiletto

You could go back in time with a camera and not get better footage than the original

Smoking room???

That didn't look like space for 60 crew & 70 passengers.

Ben if you were in this and it caught fire you be scared and Probably be hurt and one of the people who lived but you’d be hurt

After this people were just like no more blimps I guess cause I have yet to see one

A smoking room for real

One wrong bend or stretch and a cable could stress snap with an uneven load. Only takes one bend or flex to cause a minor but deadly amount of friction

You put explosive gas all over the place. Sounds like apollo one. I don't blame the machines that were sparking. I blame the people who decided to put a full oxygen environment inside of it. It was a inevitable tragedy. I am surprised it didn't happen over open water.

My gosh Someone sabotaged it so it made it blow up

This vid made me feel better about my dog poo lol

4:08 flaming helium "refinery" towers? Are you ƒucking kidding?

We had an old Snapper lawnmower that was held together by silver duct tape. It looks like the Hindenburg was too.

Flammable flammable hydrogen plus flammable dirigible coating

Im here from glass onion so this is hindenburg

Isn't it ironic that the hinden burg holds a huge amount of hydrogen and also has a smoking room.

The locals in the town of Lakehurst tell a story of the pineys shooting at it as it flew over their land. That would make a hydrogen leak that would be easily ignited. Who knows??

I never realized people survived they were running now I was exploding

Thats a lot of damage use flex tape

I thought it hit something that punctured it and hit the Cotten bags and the hydrogen cot fire

Design one that will drop the rooms in case of emergency and deploy shoot

I felt so bad for the people who where on the hot air balloon😖😢😭 and I almost thought that it hit something than explodes🤔

my stupid af brain thought of heisenburg lol

The helium leaked from the bottom so it bursted from the bottom

BRO WHY A SMOKING ROOM LIKE THIS AIN'T FUNNY GRAAF ZEPPELIN!!

Did Germany was short on aluminum back then? It’s not corrosive and lighter than steel.

In history was there any incident or major catastrophe that wasn’t planned? God I pray for peace in your World. 🙏❤️

Wellll you could see in video they release gas like 3-4 times struggling to land

I love Hindenburg

Guys 20th Century Fox Feels Bad For Hindenburg He's Sorry!

Something to do with France and England I almost certain of it! JJ PuRp

Literally everyone: talking about how it was the hydrogen gas bash bursting Me: ITS THE SMOKING ROOM, HOW HAVE YOU NOT FIGURED THAT OUT YET?!

That's how maifa works 👍

I think there was not one cause but a chain of event 😢😢😢😢

0:50 wHaT cAuSeD oUr BaLlOoN tO eXpLoDe?!

now you see why we use helium

I thought it crashed from the smokers

The whole experiment was a flaying fucking time bomb, every single version of it, If it failed so many times it meant that it was just not meant to last, WHY DID ANYONE THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA!?!

Answer. Hydrogen gas caused the disaster.

I'll bet it was some toothless hick from Manchester that shot it from the woods off 571 and got a lucky shot. Lol

is this video legal in germany?

i'm actually here because of Led Zeppelin's cover album

Oxygen in the air burns quite well when exposed to hydrogen.

0:27

Hydrogen…. Come on.

Is the Hindenburgs past the titanic I mean like it’s the largest in the world the titanic is the largest ship in the world for its time it had luxury stuff and the titanic crashed in the Atlantic Ocean and the Hindenburg past the Atlantic and both crashed after so?

It wasn’t cotton gas bags. The gas bags were made from cow or pig or ox intestines

just found this today from nilered hydrogen balloon video

I don't know why am too scared watching this video 🤔😒

It hit an iceberg causing it to explode. 💥💥💥💥