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Hindenburg disaster: The end of the airship era BY Joe Lo and Adolfo Arranz Eighty-two years ago on May 6, 1937, the German airship LZ129 Hindenburg claimed 36 lives when it caught fire during its landing in New Jersey, United States. The disaster was spectacularly caught on camera and broadcast around the world, shattering public confidence in large passenger airships – a form of transport that had once been lauded as the future of travel.

South China Morning Post special feature by:

Joe Lo, [email protected]

in collaboration with: Pablo Robles, Lau Ka-kuen and Adolfo Arranz

(Taken form the print graphic by Adolfo Arranz first published on May 5, 2012) South China Morning Post

May 6, 2019

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