What Was The Cause Of The Hindenburg Disaster

The Hindenburg disaster took place on May 6, 1937. The disaster began by caching fire and wrecking into Mooring Mast above Lakehurst, New Jersey. There were 97 people on board, out of the 97 people 36 of them died. The disaster made nation headlines though out the week, with extensive reporters and news coverage spread the news even further. The Airship was distorted in a madder of 30 seconds. The once beautiful airship had a very wonderful season before its fiery demise. It started its successful season by completing round trip from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Frankfurt, Germany. The Hindenburg’s return flight was fully booked with passengers planning to attend the festivities for King George and
Queen Elizabeth in London the following week.
At 7:18 the captain ordered that they take the final turn to land at Lakehurst, New Jersey. At 7:25 the airship was suspended at 295 feet when the airship ran into mooring mast and then exploded into flames and shrapnel. As the Hindenburg crashed into the ground the end of the ship continued to explode, the nose of the ship was pointed up and flames burst through the paneling of the ship killing all of the passengers in the nose section. There was still gas in the bow as it landed causing another explosion killing one of the crewmen on the ground. A crack appeared behind crew deck collapsing inward igniting the biggest cell of hydrogen gas. People jumped from the windows of there cabins hoeing that they would survived the landing. The explosion destroyed the velvet lettering written on the side of the airship. As the bow touched the ground it slightly bounced into the air causing a final gas cell to ignite. After the disaster was finished the news
Theorists believe that the airship was under pressure from turning so much and that it weekend the frame causing it to crash into mooring mast. There are Nemours accounts of hypothesis. The static spark hypothesis states that there was some static friction between the wirers and the cloth on the in side of the ship where the gas was being held. The static would have ignited the hydrogen causing the airship to explode and crash into mooring mast. The puncture hypothesis stats that one of the wires snapped and punctured the cloth causing it to split open. The puncture caused hydrogen to leak out of the cell. The static spark supports this statement that a spark caused the explosion and demise of the airship. The puncture would have deflated the ship and caused the ship to be lowered to and ultimately hitting mooring mast and being destroyed. The explosion caused near by zeppelins to explode, stating that the fabric hypothesis is a true explanation for the zeppelin’s being housed at the naval station to ignite causing more