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r-.. t ' __ , .. ____,i4.__ _____.i._.. _ . _. _. __.. .__.__ I __ _..._..__.-. _.. - . .. . _ 92 -. 92 - o of the ship so as not to tear this covering. To the right of the metal eye is s hetchwsy about a foot in diameter which may be opened so that the ground may be observed. Freud advised that it was possible that the ship could have been moving very slightly st the time he was st the ring positions. Freund had no knowledge of the time the forward lines were made fest. With reference to the position of the lending cables aboard the Hindenburg, Freund-advised that at ring nnnher 55 there are two steel cables. it rins 57 there are two steel cables, starboard and port side. it ring 62 there is the spider which he had let out, and the after landing line. it ring 205 is e spider on the starboard and port side, and they ere let down from the control car. it ring Pvsitiono 205 and 218 there are two steel cables which are attached to the dock- ing dollies. At ring 2hh.5 there are two lending lines and two spiders, one on the port side and one on the starboard side. There are at the bow, starboard and port sides, two cables to which landing spiders may be attached from ground positions, then there is i steel cable which runs through the mooring cone attached to the mooring tower. At this point Freund Ins excused by the Board,tc be recalled on lay l7, 1957. Witness Ho. 2 on May 15, 1957 was CIAUB HIHKELBEIN, of Schwseschall, Germany. Claus Hinkelbein advised that he was e First Lieutenant Flight Commander in the German Air Corps, and prior to this trip of the Hindenburg he had hed no experience with lighter-than-air crafts. On this trip Hinkelbein was a passenger aboard the Hindenburg. He neither heard nor sew anything extraordinary during the trip or before the accident to the Hindenburg. The first he knew of impending danger was a slight jerk of the ship and the reflection of fire at the aft end of the Hindenburg. Hinlcelbein sew fire shortly after the aft lend- ing rope had been dropped. At about the time he observed the fire he heard 1 muffled detonation, but at the time he was not sure Ihether there was an explosion aboard the ship or not. He estimated. that at the time of hearing the detonation the ship was about seventy or eighty meters above the ground. Hinkelbein was standing at the starboard side of the passenger quarters near the rear bulkhead, and more specifically, in the music room. From where Hinkelbein stood the ground was visible and he bed observed the starboard landing line dropped. He also saw a line hit the ground, the ground crew run from the ship with the line, drawing it taunt. He, however, did not notice whether the ground crew