Chelsea Handler

You guys, before we get off the plane, I just want to get in a round of applause for Sully.

Exactly.

Oh, my gosh.

I still think any airplane landing is like kind of a miracle.

It's like I'm all for like.

Yeah, I'm for the clapping.

The best lie is partial truth.

So May 6th, 1937, the Hindenburg arrives in Lakehurst Naval Air Station.

And the weather is garbage.

There's thunderstorms, delays, the Hindenburg circles for a while.

It's nothing unheard of, but the vibes are definitely off.

So finally, at 7.25 p.m., the ship lands.

comes in to dock.

It's an interesting process.

In this instance, they were going to drop ropes from the Zeppelin that would then be attached to winches and they kind of pull it down to the ground gently.

It also has ballast tanks inside of it full of water, which it can drop to change its sort of buoyancy in the sky.

It's very cool technology.

Anyway, it's coming in for the landing.

It drops the winch cables and then,

Something just goes horribly wrong, and it's like the sky itself explodes.