Chelsea Handler

He thought everyone on board the Hindenburg was just scorched.

He was so mortified that he thought he was just witnessing a mass death.

As we will learn, there were a lot of survivors, which is incredible.

When you watch the footage, it's totally incredible.

Oh, for sure.

And it's a much more gentle process.

The landing of Zeppelin is like just sort of like a balloon coming down.

And so it's inherently more like there's no high speed, all the things that make air travel so much more inherently dangerous.

Well, that's what we do here at Snafu.

I know.

This is the fun.

You get to come on and learn something, maybe have a few chuckles, and I might tug at your heartstrings a little bit.

Who knows?

Here's the wild part.

Despite the scale of this disaster, which was huge, out of the 97 people on board the Hindenburg, only 35 were killed.

That's 13 passengers and 22 crew members.

Now, there was also one of the ground workers also perished, which brings the total to 36.

Now, this is obviously still very tragic, but honestly, it's astonishing given that photo we just looked at, right?

Yeah, it's totally incredible.

So what actually happened?