The fleet, gray Zeppelin Hindenburg, the greatest lighter-than-air craft in the world, was blown asunder and consumed by flames at 7:25 o’clock last night 300 feet above the heads of a thousand ...

LAKEHURST, N,J. (CBSNewYork) --On May 6, 1937, a German zeppelin called the Hindenburg met its fate in Lakehurst, New Jersey -- when the tail end of the gigantic aircraft caught fire and crashed in a ...

On May 6, 1937, the German airship Hindenburg burst into flames at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. Thirty-five people aboard and one person on the ground died. Ahead of Saturday’s 80th ...

In Tom Clancy's sensationalist novel "Debt of Honor," a disgruntled pilot decides to avenge his lost honor by crashing a fuel-laden 747 directly into the U.S. Capitol, causing the giant building to ...

Eighty years ago this week, the airship Hindenburg erupted into flames while nearing the mooring mast at New Jersey’s Lakehurst Naval Air Station. From a nearby hangar, radio reporter Herbert Morrison ...

The Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst, New Jersey, which marked the end of the era of passenger-carrying airships. (Photo by Sam Shere/Getty Images) EDITOR'S NOTE: On May 6, 1937, the German airship ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: On May 6, 1937, the German airship Hindenburg burst into flames at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. Thirty-five people aboard and one person on the ground died. Ahead of ...

Before the modern jumbo jet and its first-class suites, the biggest and grandest thing in luxury air travel was the German Zeppelin Airship. Of all the massive Zeppelins constructed, the most famous ...

Werner Gustav Doehner, the last survivor of the Hindenburg zeppelin disaster in 1937, died Nov. 8 in Laconia, New Hampshire, a family member said. He was 90. Doehner died from complications of ...

An American airship designed and flown by Walter Wellman and Melvin Vaniman, with a crew of four others, attempted to make the first aerial crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in 1910. The airship set out ...

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