1933 USS Akron Crash

[Jim Eshelman]

April 4, 1933, 12:23 AM, 39N27'08", 73W42'27"

This dirigible for the U.S. Navy was "the world's first purpose-built flying aircraft carrier" and one of "the largest flying objects ever built" (785 feet long). When it was destroyed off the New Jersey coast in a thunderstorm, 73 of the 76 people aboard died, at the time the largest number of deaths of any airship crash.

Buffeted by severe winds, the Akron was eventually driven down to the ocean surface where it's lower fin was ripped off on striking the water. The ship collapsed rapidly and then sank. Another ship observed this happening about 12:23 AM (the captain was rescued two minutes later).

Year: Capsolar {+2}
Mercury sq. MC 0°16' [sq. non-angular Uranus 2°06' in mundo]
Mars sq. Asc 1°33' [conj. non-angular Jupiter 1°43' in mundo]
Venus distantly foreground

NB The Cansolar was quite good, but nothing in our normal working would suggest we look at it. Mars is 0°18' from MC, 0°03' from sesqui-square Saturn.

Bridge {-2}
t Jupiter on Cansolar angles 2/20-7/16

Month: Caplunar (Dormant.) Moon-Uranus Moon-Pluto.

Week: Canlunar {+1}
(I suppose the Jupiter, in combo with Mars, is the storm, but it still costs a point.)
Jupiter on MC 0°31'
Mars sq. Asc 0°21'
Neptune more widely foreground
Moon-Uranus sq. 0°44' in mundo
Moon-Pluto sq. 2°35' (Pluto is stationary)

NB: Three significant stars (Acrab, Alcyone, Dubhe), all thought to be the nature of Mars, are within 1° of angles of this chart.

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {+2}
p MC op. t Mars 0°52'
p Asc sq. t Mercury 0°34'
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t Jupiter sq. r MC 1°27'

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits {0/-2 = -1}
p Asc conj. t Mercury 0°19', op. s Jupiter 1°15'
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t Venus op. s MC 0°57'
-- t Venus sq. s Mercury 0°41'