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The Hindenburg, the largest manmade object ever to fly suddenly explodes. The disaster becomes one of the most recognized images of the twentieth century. Fire races through seven million cubic feet of hydrogen from gas cells inside the rigid frame. The new Daimler-Benz diesel engines that sped the Hindenburg across the ocean fall to the ground along with the luxurious passenger compartment and high tech navigation car. In less than one minute the...

KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 were just two of many planes delayed on the Spanish island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands on March 27, 1977. A series of events resulted in the two aircraft attempting to take off in dense fog from the same runway at the same time. This film is the result of investigators piecing together the conditions and actions that resulted in the death of 583 people, from eyewitness accounts and recordings from...