Content area
Full text
Mystery shrouds Hindenburg disaster 60 years later
Associated Press
LAKEHURST, N.J. - What happened is familiar to anybody who has seen the black-and-white footage of flames peeling away the skin of the airship Hindenburg, or heard the eyewitness reporter's frantic description of "the humanity" dying before him.
It's the "why" that remains unanswered, 60 years after the 804-foot German zeppelin burst into flames, crashing in slow motion onto a New Jersey field.
On May 6, 1937, 10 hours late for its landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station after a 2-day trip from Frankfurt, the ship descended to about 300 feet and crew members dropped lines to be moored.
Then it happened -...