Word: updraft
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...Five years ago the Akron was approaching the mooring mast at Camp Kearney near San Diego, Calif, when a sudden updraft tossed her 1,000 ft. aloft with three members of the ground crew dangling from a line. Two presently fell to their deaths (TIME, May 23, 1932). With this spectacular incident in mind, all four newsreel cameramen at Lakehurst had turned their lenses on the Hindenburg's ground crew at the crucial moment, thus missed the first flare of flame. The investigators last week appealed for any amateur film which might shed new light...