Chelsea Handler
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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.
In just 34 seconds, the largest airship ever built turns into a catastrophic inferno.
As it's still in the sky and it collapses down onto the airfield in a massive –
massive explosion.
It is truly an incredible thing to watch.
You can Google the newsreel footage.
It is wild.
We can look at a photo here.
So in this picture, it looks like it's crashing into a tower.
That's actually just in the foreground.
The Zeppelin is way in the background of this photo.