DisasterCast is a podcast about system safety and risk management. Each episode contains three segments, one of which is a description of a major accident. The accident for this episode is the crash and fire which destroyed the Hindenburg.

Since this is the first episode, it includes a section on the language used to discuss safety, including defining some of the terms which we use to talk about accidents and risk.

The episode finishes with a piece about rogue planets, and how to think about very remote, very high consequence risks.

Transcript

The episode transcript can be found here.

Hindenburg Resources

German Accident Investigation Report.

Commerce Department Investigation Report.

The radio broadcast by Herb Morrison.