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paxswill | 4 years ago

Echoing a sibling comment, that thread goes down the conspiracy rabbit hole very quickly. A few inaccuracies I noticed before giving up:

* "Remember, only 13 deaths out of the 36 passengers on the airship died." This skips the crew deaths (who also died at about the same rate).

* There were a bunch of photographers present at Lakehurst as it was the first crossing of 1937. The audio recording was not scripted, the original disc records a pressure wave which is followed by Morrison exclaiming that the Hindenburg is on fire.

* "Mary Jane" can be a real person's name.

* "Hugo Eckener, former head of the Zeppelin Company, Charles Rosendahl, commander of the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, Max Pruss, captain of the Hindenburg and most of the surviving crew believed the airship had been sabotaged.". Eckener stated that it could be sabotage when he was first told the Hindenburg had gone down. He later backed the static spark theory.

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