Tonight at 7:25 p.m. it will have been seventy years since the crash of the Hindenburg. At 804-foot-long, more than three times longer than a Boeing 747 the huge airship was at the time cutting-edge technology.

The last flight was already running late and because of the political moods of the day tensions were high. Just half full, with only 36 passengers and 61 crew members the hydrogen-filled Hindenburg some how ignited while easing toward its mooring mast at Lakehurst, NJ base. It instantly burst into flames and was totally engulfed crashing down from about 100 feet or so, directly on to the ground crew. The blaze killed 35 people on board but some how only one person in the ground crew; 62 passengers and crew members survived.
There are numerous of photos and even a video of the crash where a radio station reporter in shock uttered the now famous phrase "Oh, the humanity and all the passengers!"
In Part the crash led to the end of the Zeppelin in commercial aviation, other than the safer helium filled blimps we all know. Like the Goodyear or the Ginn Blimp that visited here
last Monday