Anonymous ID: 10f759 Dec. 18, 2025, 8:32 p.m. No.24000344   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0349 >>0358

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This image shows Werner Franz, the last surviving crew member of the Hindenburg, pictured after the airship disaster.

 

Werner Franz was a 14-year-old cabin boy on the Hindenburg when it caught fire and crashed in Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 6, 1937.

 

He survived the crash without injury, partly because a water ballast tank burst and drenched him, protecting him from the flames.

Franz escaped by jumping out of a cloth supply hatch just before the airship hit the ground.

The disaster, which killed 35 of the 97 people on board and one person on the ground, was a major blow to the image of German air travel.

Franz died in 2014 at the age of 92