SABOTAGE SUGGESTED
DESIGNER'S REMARK
THREATENING LETTERS
RECEIVED
BERLIN, May 7.
Dr. Hugo Eckener, designer of the Hindenburg, is hastening to Berlin from Vienna.
He says that one thing is clear—the necessity for using helium, which he always has advocated. Dr. Eckener, who will probably join the commission of inquiry, interviewed on the train, ruled out the lightning theory, as the Hindenburg was equipped with preventive devices. Very likely the disaster was due to sabotage, he declared. Repeatedly'he had received anonymous threatening letters warning: him that the Hindenburg would not land at Lakehurst. It is recalled that much of the scrap metal from the RlOl was embodied in the Hindenburg's frame.
A commission of inquiry is leaving tor America immediately.
The whole of Germany was deeply shocked, especially as Captain Preuss had sent a wireless message stating that the voyage had ended;
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 108, 8 May 1937, Page 9
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