Chelsea Handler

It's just simply exploding.

This, I believe, is the same photo that Led Zeppelin used on their first album cover.

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And apparently the Zeppelin family estate was outraged by this and tried to sue Led Zeppelin or something.

But yeah, this is the beginning of the explosion.

It then sort of drops.

and hits the ground and the whole thing is enveloped in flames.

There are a lot of harrowing firsthand accounts of what went down.

One passenger was thrown out a window by his mother and survived.

A cabin boy was miraculously saved by a ruptured water tank, which ended up tipping over and drenching him so that he could then kick open a hatch and escape without burning.

He did.

There's a really famous radio recording of Herb Morrison was recording a broadcast during this.

It became one of the most iconic disaster broadcasts of all time.

It's where we get the phrase, oh, the humanity.

This is what he shouts in real time as he's watching the Hindenburg crash.

It's a really wild recording.

I suggest Googling it because it's just such a fascinating little nugget of history.

But he's he's sort of narrating in a very calm like, oh, here we are in Lakehurst, New Jersey, with the famous Hindenburg dirigible coming in for a land.