I remember being super weirded out by finding out there were Hindenburg survivors. I guess I just assumed that any disaster big enough to halt an entire field of technological research would have, like, killed everyone on board. But apparently not.
The two are arguably related: if it hadn't happened during landing with a lot of people around (including spectators, cameramen, and newsmen) to firmly place it in the social consciousness, there might not have been any survivors (either because it happened over the Atlantic, or over land at a higher altitude and with no nearby rescuers).
‘The accident caused 35 fatalities (13 passengers and 22 crewmen) from the 97 people on board (36 passengers and 61 crewmen), and an additional fatality on the ground.’
Yeah, count me as someone who just figured that it all went up in a puff of smoke.
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Wikipedia is useful, in this regard:
‘The accident caused 35 fatalities (13 passengers and 22 crewmen) from the 97 people on board (36 passengers and 61 crewmen), and an additional fatality on the ground.’
Yeah, count me as someone who just figured that it all went up in a puff of smoke.
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Yeah, me too -- I figured the "survivors" were onlookers on the ground, not that anybody on board had made it out.