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The MythBusters Take On the Hindenburg!

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Super-sleuthing special-effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, hosts of the popular TV show MythBusters, recently took on a challenge of Zeppelin-like proportions — to identify what caused the Hindenburg disaster!

On May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg was coming in for a landing after its first transatlantic trip of the year when it suddenly burst into flame. 35 passengers and crewmen, and one sailor on the ground, were killed in the crash. The source of the fire has remained a hotly-debated mystery for 70 years. The most popular theory claims that the ship’s flammable hydrogen lifting gas started the fire. But a more recent theory claims that the fire actually started on the ship’s fabric skin.

So did Adam and Jamie bust the myth that the hydrogen caused the fire?

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