Hindenburg disaster

When

6 May 1937

Kind

Fire

Coordinates

40.03° N, 74.33° W

Description

1937 airship accident in New Jersey

Deaths

35

Injured

62

1937 airship fire in the US

The Hindenburg disaster was a airship accident that occurred on May 6, 1937, in Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States. The LZ 129 Hindenburg was a Nazi 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.

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