Was the Hindenburg disaster inevitable? The massive airship was built to lead a new era of air travel, but instead, it met a fiery fate. What really happened that day, and could this tragedy have been ...

Of 97 people aboard, 62 survived. At the time, the Hindenburg was supposed to be ushering in a new age of airship travel. But the crash instead brought the age to an abrupt end, making way for the ...

The Zeppelin company, the German company that ... was working in the wire service’s New York darkroom when the Hindenburg crashed. Zeno Wicks Jr., 86, of Louisville, Ky., was 16 when he and ...

On top of that, most airships were inflated with hydrogen, which is a very dangerous and highly flammable substance." [In Photos: The History of the Hindenburg Disaster] You may like Titanic ...

The last survivor of the Hindenburg airship disaster, Werner Gustav Doehner, has died, according to his family. Doehner, 90, passed away at a hospital in Laconia, New Hampshire, on November 8 ...

The zeppelin was the Hindenburg, and the accompanying remarkable photographs — plus the famous radio account — would sear the disaster in the nation’s collective memory. For many in Chicago ...

The USS Akron plunged into the Atlantic during a 1933 storm Twice as many people died than in the famous Hindenburg disaster A ceremony Thursday will commemorate the Navy airship LAKEHURST ...

The Hindenburg disaster saw German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg go down in flames during a docking attempt on May 6, 1937, shattering public confidence, and marking the end of the airship era.

Picture a colossal airship the size of an ocean liner, gliding through the sky with elegance—complete with piano lounges, ...

The airship industry has struggled under the long shadow of the Hindenburg disaster of 1937, when a German zeppelin dramatically caught fire while trying to moor itself in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

Monday marks 87 years since the airship caught fire and crashed in New Jersey, causing 35 deaths. The Hindenburg departed from Frankfurt, Germany, on May 3, 1937, and was heading to Lakehurst ...