A flying machine the size of the Titanic, an absolute marvel of luxury and engineering, dropped from the sky and turned to ash in barely 32 seconds. The real mystery of the Hindenburg isn't that it fell, but exactly why, and how anyone survived.

This episode is a forensic profile of the May 6, 1937 disaster that ended the airship era overnight. We cover the rushed landing, the seesaw struggle for balance, the miraculous survival stories, the false sabotage theories, and the modern science that finally explains the fatal spark.

• Out of 97 people aboard, 62 survived, including an acrobat who used his camera to smash a window and roll to safety
• The crew used their own bodies as counterweights to fight a hidden, stern-heavy lift failure
• Herbert Morrison's famous broadcast was recorded for delayed playback, not aired li ...