Sixty years after the spectacular crash of the Hindenburg, aU.S. space scientist has discovered the flaw that almost certainlyled to the airship's destruction.
Addison Bain, who worked on the American space program formore than 30 years, dismissed the conventional belief that escapinghydrogen was set on fire by static electricity and caused the infernothat destroyed the 804-foot craft as it prepared to land on May 6,1937, at Lakehurst, N.J., after crossing the Atlantic.
Thirty-six of the 97 people onboard died, airship travel wasabandoned and one of Nazi Germany's most impressive propagandasymbols lay in ruins, seemingly because of the very gas that …
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