The Hindenburg: Thirty-Four Seconds Over New Jersey

On the evening of the sixth of May, 1937, the largest aircraft ever to fly was floating above a field in New Jersey, minutes from the end of an ordinary transatlantic crossing. Thirty-four seconds later, it was a skeleton of glowing metal falling out of the sky. This is what happened. CHAPTERS 00:00 Cold open 01:30 Scene 1: The machine and the gas 08:30 Scene 2: The crossing 15:00 Scene 3: The conditions of the evening 22:30 Scene 4: The leak 29:30 Scene 5: Thirty-four seconds 37:00 Scene 6: The thirty-four seconds and the survivors 44:00 Scene 7: The inquiries 51:00 Scene 8: The end of an era 58:00 Scene 9: What the Hindenburg left behind 65:00 Scene 10: What endures This is Episode 4 of Post-Mortem Files. New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe so you don't miss the rest of the series. Which warning sign do you think they should have caught first? Tell us below. #Disasters #AccidentInvestigation #AviationDisasters #IndustrialAccidents #accidentinvestigation