A recently discovered letter reveals that Captain Ernst Lehmann, the world’s most experienced Zeppelin pilot, knew about the Hindenburg’s damaged gas bag and it’s crude repairs. Not anticipating catastrophe, these specific problems led Lehmann to fly on the infamous airship’s trans-Atlantic flight because he worried there would be a problem that the staff and crew may not be equipped to handle.
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- [Narrator] On Secrets of the Dead.
- [Man] The Hindenburg's horrible end has shocked the entire world.
- [Narrator] Now more than 80 years later, the list of failures that led to the tragedy can be revealed.
- The testing was not very adequate at all.
- The money that the Nazis gave, had strings attached.
- The use of hydrogen did make this airship a ticking time bomb.
- [Narrator] Hindenburg's Fatal Flaws on Secrets of the Dead.
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