What happened to the Hindenburg?

Explore the inside of the ship and see the events leading up to accident!
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Book Sources:
Hindenburg: An Illustrated History by Rick Archbold and Ken Marschall
Giant Airships By Douglas Botting
The Hindenburg by Patrick O'Brien

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"Night Music" by Kevin MacLeod

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The Hindenburg is a largest airship ever built. Unfortunately it caught fire and was completely destroyed in 1937. There is still debate over what caused the accident. This video shows the inside of the Hindenburg: the A Deck and B Deck, the crew areas, control car, cargo areas, and engine cars alongside of the ship. The 16 gas cells held the ship up but were filled with hydrogen which is extremely flammable.

[BigMacOrange]

The balls to have a smoking room on this thing is impressive.

[Dodo-nbyc]

never realised there was actually this much inside of an airship, thought it was just the control room hanging from the bottom

[thatmnkid]

These are the type of videos I watch at 2AM after i told myself I was going to bed at 12

[RARufus]

My grandma passed last year at 102 years and told us many times about seeing the Hindenburg docked in NY when she was a child. A few years later the disaster happened.

[oreosauce]

*Germany should have used ExpressVPN to get Helium*

[MikMoen]

Make the entire ship a giant flammable balloon.

"Lets give everyone a place to smoke."

[NZREngine]

It's weird that these giant airships were being designed before the tiny modern bike was even invented

[DDULQTC]

Danke für dieses Video. Was oft missverstanden wird: Ja, Helium ist schwerer als Wasserstoff. Wenn wir das vergleichen müssen wir das Gewicht aber gegen Luft (28, 949 g/mol) vergleichen. Und dann wirkt Helium (4.003 g/mol) nicht mehr soooo viel schwerer als Wasserstoff (2, 01588 g/mol).

[Melan_B]

Not gonna lie, the air ships seem really cool

[D-Man_Jam]

_"More than half the people survived"_

Bruh, how. It was literally just a ball of fire.

[felixcat]

I recall that a member of the Crew was trapped by the conflagration and had resigned himself to dying, when he was suddenly drenched by a veritable waterfall that came from a water ballast tank above him which fractured!

The flames around him were extinguished and so he was able to safely escape!

When I first read about his escape I was really happy for him, and how from facing a truly horrific death he was suddenly saved by a freak occurrence of the only possible means for his survival.

Your videos are fascinating in their meticulous detail, likewise your narration.

[joed]

Wow, incredible video with the animation. It is exactly what I was looking to understand. I visited a museum that presented the Hindenburg and I had no idea there were passengers in it.

Thank you very much for sharing and keeping this video up!

[alyssanguyen]

Another episode of where quarantine has gotten me

[cactusjack]

It’s amazing anyone even survived this, let alone 62 out of the 97 passengers survived. Incredible… 🤯😳

[SanthalExperience]

Thanks jared owen for this type engineer knowledge ❤

[destkiller]

My grandfather was a german teen when he served on the Hindenburg as the accident happened but somehow he managed to survive the tragedy. After that he wrote a 1 of 1 book which afterwards he handed over to us about it with a lot pictures and explainings whose describe how he could survive. Truly heartbreaking and devastating. Unfortunately he died 2014 as last survivor of the Hindeburg. If you guys are interested in the book I could share some pictures, but beware, everything is written in german for those who don't understand !

[davidt]

"Unfortunately, most of the evidence was burned up."
You don't say.

[eadecamp]

My mother was 11 at the time. She said people could see the smoke 80 miles away in Bergenfield.

[ДмитрийГерасимов-чю]

Судя по последним исследованиям, всему виной обшивка гинденбурга, состоявшая из целюлозы и алюминиевой пудры, по сути, ракетным топливом, хватило малейшей искры, чтобы обшивка вспыхнула, а дальше в дело вступил водород...

[than]

2/3rd of the passengers surviving a 1 minute crash has always been the most astonishing part to me. Those people were booking it.