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The 2001 documentary Hindenburg Disaster: Probable Cause suggested another theory. A 16-year-old boy had smelled what he described as gasoline when he was standing below the Hindenburg's aft port engine. During the investigation, commander Charles Rosendahl dismissed this clue. Some have suggested he had smelled diesel fuel, which could have leaked and could have created highly flammable oil vapor that could have ignited the ship. They ... suggested that overheating engines may have played a role in the theory. This theory is thought by some to be misleading because it may have misinterpreted the statements by the crewmen of the lower fin. The show thought the crewmen saw a flash in the keel catwalk, when in reality they saw something in the axial catwalk.
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The 2001 documentary Hindenburg Disaster: Probable Cause suggested that 16-year-old Bobby Rutan, who said he had smelled "gasoline" when he was standing below the Hindenburg's aft port engine, had detected a diesel fuel leak. The day before the disaster a fuel pump had broken during the flight. A crew member said this was fixed but it may not have been. The resulting vapor would have been highly flammable and could have self combusted. The film ... suggested that overheating engines may have played a role.
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Film footage of the May 6, 1937 Hindenburg disaster is accompanied by a recording of Herb Morrison, a reporter for Chicago radio station WLS, describing the crash as it happened. The recorded report was broadcast nationwide the next day, and was one of the first radio broadcasts of a reporter covering a news event as it was happening. Morrison’s description of the crash is famous for its raw, heartfelt emotion.
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There lay the real cause of the Hindenburg disaster, for Germany has no helium. It is a U. S. monopoly. The willingness of Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt to sell Germany enough helium to fly the Graf and the Hindenburg on peaceful missions was offset by the price factor (more than 30 times as expensive, for 20% less payload efficiency) and by covert political opposition. As Columnist Dorothy Thompson wrote:
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The Hindenburg disaster did not air live. Later that day Morrison and Nehlsen went back to Chicago with the transcriptions. Portions of the recordings were played over WLS airwaves the next morning and in New York as well.
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English rock group Led Zeppelin's eponymous first album has a picture of the Hindenburg disaster on the front cover. The band's name itself is a reference to Keith Moon's quotation that the band would "go over like a lead balloon." The album cover is in fact a pen and ink illustration of the famous UPI photograph drawn with a Rapidograph pen by graphic artist George Hardie. Their 2007 compilation album Mothership ... has a picture of the Hindenburg on the album cover.
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