The Hindenburg disaster remains one of the most iconic tragedies in aviation history. On May 6, 1937, the massive German ...

Once the giants of the sky, airships promised luxury and power—until one fiery disaster changed aviation forever. Discover ...

All this made the Hindenburg disaster much more prominent in the eyes of the public than other airship catastrophes that took place. But according to Dan Grossman, airships weren't here to stay ...

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, his ...

Clearly those numbers weren’t fact-checked since only 36 people ended up perishing in the disaster. Werner Doehner was just 8 when the airship suddenly began to tilt.

In the 1930s, zeppelins or hydrogen-filled airships looked like the future of commercial air travel. The Hindenburg, a German airship, ferried passengers across the Atlantic Ocean, reaching ...

On May 6, 1937, the German airship Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg burst into flames in Lakehurst, New Jersey, while the airship was landing. NASM, Archives Division “In the 20th century, there are ...

TRENTON, N.J. — Wind and thunderstorms had delayed the Hindenburg’s arrival in New Jersey from Germany on May 6, 1937. The father of 8-year-old Werner Doehner headed to his cabin after using … ...

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, N.J ...

BERLIN - Werner Franz, believed to be the last surviving crew member of the German airship Hindenburg that crashed 77 years ago, has died. He was 92. Franz was a 14-year-old cabin boy when the ...

The huge Hindenburg airship embarked on its first North American transatlantic flight in May 1937, but the journey ended in flames as the ship crashed to the ground in New Jersey. Here are photos ...