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It just is really breath taking to see the emotion in the reporter we seem to have lost that in modern reportersThe Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_129_Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooring_mast at the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Engineering_Station_Lakehurs , which is located adjacent to the borough of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakehurst,_New_Jersey . Of the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_passengers_and_crew_aboard_the people on boardhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster#cite_note-0 (36 passengers, 61 crew), there were 36 fatalities, including one death among the ground crew.The disaster was the subject of spectacular en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsreel coverage, photographs, and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Morrison_ (announcer)'s recorded radio eyewitness report from the landing field, which was broadcast the next day. The actual cause of the fire remains unknown, although a variety of hypotheses have been put forward for both the cause of ignition and the initial fuel for the ensuing fire. The incident shattered public confidence in the giant, passenger-carrying rigid en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airship and marked the end of the airship era.