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What Happened to the Hindenburg? (Air Disaster)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Is It Sabotage?

Former zeppelin company had hugo ekener speculated that it might have been sabotage, though he later changed his mind. Captain max pruss, the man in charge of the doomed flight, thought it was sabotage. Vice admiral charles rosendal, the american in charge of lakehurst naval air station and the man incharge of the docking procedure, also thought it was sabotaged. Later, the zeppelin company tried to duplicate situation with tests, and they couldn't get the hydrogen to ignite based on engine sparks. So what about the most sensational theory, that it was sabotage? There have been multiple books written about this hypothesis,. It was used in the 19 75 movie

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