Apr 23 1997
From The Space Library
NASA scientist Addison Bain released a study concluding that the cause of the highly publicized explosion of the airship Hindenburg in 1937 was a special paint used to protect the aircraft from sunlight not the ignition of inflammable hydrogen as historians had previously thought. Bain and a team of researchers used reels of archived film, models, and computer simulations to reach the conclusion that the outside of the Hindenburg had caught fire first. Because the Nazi government viewed the Hindenburg accident as an embarrassment, Germany had restricted the investigation into the explosion, which caused the deaths of the 35 passengers. The cover-up had led researchers to propose the scientifically unconvincing theory of a hydrogen fire.
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