This was the last of the great airship disasters it was preceded by the crashes of the British R38, the US airship Roma, the French Dixmude, the British R101, and the USS Akron. The airship flew from March 1936 until it was destroyed by fire 14 months later on while attempting to land at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Manchester Township, New Jersey, at the end of the first North American transatlantic journey of her second season of service.
It was designed and built by the Zeppelin Company ( Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH) on the shores of Lake Constance in Friedrichshafen, Germany, and was operated by the German Zeppelin Airline Company ( Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei).
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.
