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What tragedy befell the Hindenburg?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

The Hindenburg was filled with highly flammable hydrogen gas which ignited as the airship was landing at Lakehurst NJ in 1936. 35 of the 97 passengers and crew, as well as one ground crew worker, were killed in the inferno.

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