Take your pick: which is your most popular misconception? 
The Hindenburg blew up because it was filled with dangerous/flammable/explosive Nazi hydrogen. (See 3.4)
The Hindenburg was originally designed for helium-only, but the Americans would not sell it to the Germans, who then were forced to use the dangerous/flammable/explosive Nazi hydrogen over their most vigorous protests, since there were abundant methods of shipping American helium overseas. The Germans always knew they should have used helium and the use of hydrogen was a design flaw which can be blamed for the accident. (See 3.1)
The Hindenburg made a tight turn, a wire broke, which cut a gas cell, hydrogen escaped, mixed with air, then that mix made a u-turn at the covering, then resisted dispersal and diffusion until the nose ropes got wet enough to ground, which generated a spark at the other end, which got under the cover near the oxy-hydrogen there, which caught fire, and that ignited the covering. (See 3.5)
Or maybe it was a stuck valve, since that had happened before, so just the right amount of hydrogen was vented out the hooded vent, it mixed with air, there was more than enough energy in the corona to ignite the mix, the lighter-than-air fire somehow backed down the vent stack all the way to the stuck valve and then entered the cell and ignited the airless hydrogen in the cells. (See 3.2)
Or, just like in the movie, a mad bomber placed an explosive device timed to go off after the passengers disembarked and its firey blast ignited the Nazi dangerous/flammable/explosive pure hydrogen in the cells which then also exploded without air spreading fire to the covering. (See 3.4)
Or, details do not really matter, we have been told all our lives that hydrogen caused the accident by itself and the Zeppelin Company has never admitted to any design oversight and we don’t need to explain how flammable mix of oxy-hydrogen had to have been in between the ignition source and the fabric seen burning. (See 3.4)
“The death of the Hindenburg was the death of the dirigible.” When America refused helium the Zeppelin could no longer fly, no airship would ever again be lifted by hydrogen, no one ever rode a Zeppelin again, etc. etc. (See 5.3)
Begin with 3.1. LZ-129 Evolves
Continue reading to 3.2. The US Navy and the Hindenburg
Continue reading to 3.3. Hindenburg Götterdämmerung
Continue reading to 3.4. Hindenburg “Explosion”
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