My brother claims to have read (if that doesn't sound like an urban legend opening, I don't know what does <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> ) that there was a professional stuntman who escaped from the Hindenberg by jumping. He was at one end of the dirigible - when it caught fire, it tilted upward and he was in the end highest from the ground. He jumped (had no choice, really), managed to hit the ground in a tuck and roll, and survived (albeit with multiple broken bones and, I presume, a concussion or worse). He was the only person in that part of the balloon to survive. Supposedly.
I have never been able to confirm this, though. <img src="images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
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