Goodyear Blimp burst into flames, crashes!

[Melensdad]

Breaking news:

Pilot killed after helping three passengers to make incredible escape as Goodyear blimp plunges to the ground in flames
By ALLAN HALL
Last updated at 6:03 PM on 13th June 2011

A Goodyear blimp burst into flames and plunged to earth in a weekend crash in Germany.

The pilot was killed but three passengers managed to jump to safety when the airship caught fire as it was coming in to land at the Reichelsheim aerodrome near Friedberg.

When the airship was just six metres from the floor, the pilot told his passengers, all journalists, to jump to the ground while he tried to land safely.

Once the three had leapt clear of the blimp he took it back up before being it became overwhelmed by flames and crashed to the earth, in a chilling echo of the Hindenburg disaster.


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[joec]

I had 8x10 glossies of the Hindenburg going down that my grandfather took with a browning box camera. These was among the many pictures lost during Andrew I'm sorry to say as I had a number of pictures from that period he had taken.

 

[Lia]

Breaking news:

A Goodyear blimp burst into flames and plunged to earth in a weekend crash in Germany.

The pilot was killed but three passengers managed to jump to safety when the airship caught fire as it was coming in to land at the Reichelsheim aerodrome near Friedberg.​

When the airship was just six metres from the floor, the pilot told his passengers, all journalists, to jump to the ground while he tried to land safely.​

Once the three had leapt clear of the blimp he took it back up before being it became overwhelmed by flames and crashed to the earth, in a chilling echo of the Hindenburg disaster.​

The Pilot was a very brave man. How dreadful this is...

I had 8x10 glossies of the Hindenburg going down that my grandfather took with a browning box camera. These was among the many pictures lost during Andrew I'm sorry to say as I had a number of pictures from that period he had taken.

That too was a terrible disaster joec. A dreadful loss of lives. Here is some footage from that era, when it happened.​

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V5KXgFLia4&feature=related"]YouTube - ‪Hindenburg Explodes! Scores Dead - Special Release 1937/05/10‬‏[/ame]

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[muleman]

I have to wonder why he took it back higher rather than let it just fly away while they jumped. Saw one brief story about this today.