Hindenburg Survivors Recall Disaster On 70th Anniversary

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First Posted: 05- 5-07 06:53 PM   |   Updated: 03-28-08 02:44 AM

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Associated Press:

At 87, Robert Buchanan says he sometimes has trouble remembering what he did 10 minutes ago. But he can recall in vivid detail the day 70 years ago when he watched the luxurious airship Hindenburg erupt into a fireball.

Flames roared across the surface of the mighty German dirigible only 100 or so feet above him, singing his hair as he ran for his life.

Read the whole story: Associated Press

Filed by Larry Womack
 



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