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The airship known as the Hindenburg was twice as big as present-day jumbo jets and nearly as long as the Titanic. With all the amenities of luxury liners, it was the most elegant way to fly. It was such a marvel that it attracted spectators to a routine landing in Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 6, 1937. And then the Hindenburg exploded. Just 30 years before, the very idea of flight by humans was still new. The Germans used a kind of airship in military operations during World War I, and although postwar Germany was banned for a short time from building such ships, the fascination with air travel spread around the world. The Hindenburg was an amazing combination of innovative and standard construction, and it was considered perfectly safe-it had been advertised as the safest airship ever built. Though the Hindenburg fire was not the worst air disaster of its time, it was the most memorable. Scenes of the tragedy, in which 36 people were killed, were captured on film and are etched in the minds of many who hadn't even been born when it happened. What went wrong? Read about the disaster and its aftermath in The Hindenburg.
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