What Is The Hindenburg Disaster?

The Hindenburg disaster was a heart breaking disaster that shook the nation and mourned the lives of the ones who died, and completely changed the lives of those who survived and those who watched helplessly.
The Hindenburg was the largest airship ever built. This Nazi airship was over eight hundred feet in length and a little over one hundred and thirty feet in diameter. This zeppelin air ship was over six hundred feet larger than our blimps today. The airship held about seventy two passengers and had more than thirty crew men; ten to twelve stewards and cooks. The Hindenburg could reach a max speed of eighty four miles per hour and a cruising speed up to seventy six miles per hour (Hindenburg Statistics). Tickets for the Hindenburg were four
So the Commander Pruss demanded that they linger in New York to give the passengers a beautiful view of all New York’s great monuments such as the Empire State Building, the Bronx, Harlem, Central Park, the Battery, Times Square, the Statue of Liberty, and Ebbets Field (The Mystery of the Hindenburg) at Ebbets Field they had great entertainment because a game was going on between the Dodgers and Pirates. The weather was still too risky to land in so, Commander Pruss decided to take the ship southeast until he hit shore, then north to Asbury Park, then finally inland back to Lake Hurst (The Mystery of the Hindenburg). About 7:00pm, the Hindenburg started back to Lake Hurst to land. It dropped its altitude from six hundred feet to three hundred feet. The air had picked up heavily and it was too bad to make the usually circle around. Hurst made the decision to bake a “snake” shape instead of a full circle. But he was still going too fast to land. In attempts to lower the Hindenburg, ground crew through ropes around lowering the Hindenburg and got it to an approximate two hundred seventy five feet from the ground. On the ground a radio reported by the name, Herbert Morrison, was broadcasting the arrival of the Hindenburg. He said “It's practically standing still now. They've dropped ropes out of the nose of the ship, and it's been taken a hold of down on the field by a number of men. It's starting to rain again; the rain had slacked up a little bit. The back motors of the ship are just holding it, just enough to keep it from. It burst into flames! ... Its fire and it's crashing! It's crashing terrible! Oh, my! Get out of the way, please! It's burning, bursting into flames and is falling on the mooring mast, and all the folks agree that this is terrible. This is the worst of the worst catastrophes in the