History's Greatest Mysteries

5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Tuesday 17 June

The Hindenburg Disaster

Season 5 Episode 9

Actor Laurence Fishburne explores the Hindenburg airship disaster of May 1937, when the craft caught fire while landing in New Jersey. The cause of the blaze, which burst out of the nose, was never fully determined and 35 out of the of 97 people on the airship died. Most of the survivors were severely burned

History's Greatest Mysteries airs on Sky History HD at 5:00 PM, Tuesday 17 June. (Subtitles.)

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Laurence Fishburne

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