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.

The last survivor of the Hindenburg airship disaster, Werner Gustav Doehner, has died, according to his family.

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 ...

“But,” Crouch continues, “the age of the rigid airship had already passed, anyway.” The Hindenburg disaster, he implies, was merely punctuation.

A ceremony commemorating the disaster will take place at the crash site Saturday night. “Only two others who ever flew on the airship are alive,” said Carl Jablonski, president of the Navy ...

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 ...

The Hindenburg disaster came to be a symbol of the end of airship travel. An investigation found that a spark ignited the highly flammable hydrogen that filled the airship, causing it to burst ...

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 ...

Werner Gustav Doehner, the final remaining survivor of the Hindenburg disaster, has died. He was 90. Doehner, who was 8 years old at the time, was one of 62 passengers and crew who escaped the May … ...

LACONIA, N.H. — 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 ...