Sparks from the mooring cables has been a theory for years.
Right, I remember hearing about static electricity working to destroy the Hindinburg long ago.
Maybe he conjured up more info about how the buildup ignited the hydrogen? But electic charges are a known danger in aviation already.
Right, but he at least posited a working theory that can be tested.
Although I saw the movie, so I know the real reason was a bomb set by Germans against Nazis!
Yes- I have heard a lot of this before.
He is theorizing that the metal frame and the skin formed a giant capacitor and that the huge charge stored in that capacitor was causing sparks all over the place. One spark found a hydrogen leak at the aft.