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IF History Could Tweet Presents....The Hindenburg Crash...Im Herbert Morrison and I'll be tweeting the live landing of the Hindenburg 5-7-37

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

May 6 1937 hindeburg to land at dawn 72 years ago from ifhistorycouldtweet

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

it's early evening here at the naval airbase of lindenhurst, new jersey

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

woke up to a glorious day- though a bit cold and damp for my bones

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

first atlantic crossing of the 37 season

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

flew from chicago in only 3 hours and 55 minutes to jersey!

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

huge 21-passenger plane- american airlines

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

american airlines only line that connects to hindenburg

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

just one year ago today, hindenburg crossed for first time atlantic

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

hindemburg has been travelling for 2 and a half days

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

dawn schedule delayed by winds

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

80 mph ship travels against 30 mph wind..slows it down..hence delay

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

will appear over ny this afternoon

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

air cushions rule..kept us throughout the night

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

39 passengers and crew

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

giant ships dont land at midday- which is why early evening now- midday winds play havoc with mammoth ship

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

nothing's left to chance..safety comes first

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

beautiful field- hard surface runways at various angles so planes can take with wind behind them

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

standing at the mast right now

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

811 feet long- landing crew train thoroughly to tie down ship

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

great bunch of guys this landing crew

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

men will have difficult footing today...sand..and wet

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison2 decks on ship...a and b...a is main

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrisonmassive amount of humanity on this field for the landing

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

a lot of bright metal girders on this ship..i see it approaching

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

here it comes

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

what a great sight it is!

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

floating palace is elegant

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

propellers in rays of sun glimmer

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

last minute preps

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

like some great feather it floats towards us

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

ship is bustling with activity

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

men on field have ship

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

starting to rain

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

it burst into flames!

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

the crash is terrible!

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

this is the worst of the worst catastrophes of the world

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

oh the humanity

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

can't tweet

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

massive smoking wreck

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

i can hardly breathe

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

i'm gonna step inside so I don't have to see this

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

back...sorry folks

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

still burning

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

what happened to the ground crew

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

terriblle amount of hydrogen gas in it just caused it to explode

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

everybody running at breakneck speed to get out from under it

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrisont

he flames are still leaping 30- 40 feet in the air..ambulances are coming

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

I'm not going to stop tweeting..im just gonna keep swalowing so I can keep going on

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

everything crashed to the ground..not much of a chance of everyone being saved

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

.....

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

ladies and gentlemen im back

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

met phillip mangone..burned terriby in hands and face

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

he told me he jumped without a parachute to avoid the flames

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

ambulances are taking peopke out of wreck

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

it seems a number of people jumped...he went to the field hosp with others who jumped

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

the explosion occured in the tail surface

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

they were using hydrogen...extremely explosive

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

they take precautions...but maybe hydrogen leaked out and caught on fire

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

it is my sincere hope..that as many....many passengers jumped like mr mangone

    

hindenburg tweetedherbertmorrison

811 feet of smoldering ruins

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