Hindenburg Disaster
- January 27, 2023
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Hindenburg Disaster
Subject :History
Section: World History
Concept :
- Recently, the Hindenburg Research has grabbed the limelight over its report on the Adani Group’s alleged corporate fraud.
- The company has been named after the famous Zeppelin disaster after which took place in 1937.
Hindenburg/ Zeppelin disaster
- The Hindenburg disaster was an airship accident that occurred on May 6, 1937, in Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States.
- The German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst.
- The accident caused 35 fatalities (13 passengers and 22 crewmen) from the 97 people on board (36 passengers and 61 crewmen), and an additional fatality on the ground.
- A variety of theories have been put forward for both the cause of ignition and the initial fuel for the ensuing fire.
- The publicity shattered public confidence in the giant, passenger-carrying rigid airship and marked the abrupt end of the airship era.