Hindenburg disaster
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1937 airship accident in New Jersey
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It sits within the topics 1937 fires in the United States, 1937 in New Jersey and 1937 in radio.
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Key facts
- Date
- May 6, 1937 ; 89 years ago ( 1937-05-06 )
- Summary
- Caught fire during landing
- Aircraft type
- Hindenburg -class airship
- Aircraft name
- Hindenburg
- Operator
- Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei
- Registration
- D-LZ129
- Flight origin
- Frankfurt am Main , Nazi Germany
- Destination
- NAS Lakehurst , New Jersey , U.S.
- Injuries
- Most of the 62 survivors
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Location
- Manchester Township
- Image
- Hindenburg disaster.jpg
- Number of deaths
- 35
- Number of injured
- 62
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- destination point
- Manchester Township
- number of survivors
- 62
- Commons category
- Hindenburg disaster
- point in time
- 1937-05-06
- cause of destruction
- explosion
- number of missing
- 2
- start point
- Hesse-Nassau
- vessel
- airship
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Encyclopedic overview
The Hindenburg disaster was an airship accident that occurred on May 6, 1937, in Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States. The LZ 129 Hindenburg (Luftschiff Zeppelin #129; Registration: D-LZ 129) was a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume. Filled with hydrogen, it caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst. The accident caused 35 fatalities (13 passengers and 22 crewmen) among the 97 people on board (36 passengers and 61 crewmen), and an additional fatality on the ground.
The disaster was the subject of newsreel coverage, photographs and Herbert Morrison's recorded radio eyewitness reports from the landing field, which were broadcast the next day. A variety of theories have been put forward for both the cause of ignition and the initial fuel for the ensuing fire. The publicity shattered public confidence in the giant passenger-carrying rigid airship and marked the abrupt end of the airship era.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hindenburg disaster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.