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The Hindenburg was considered a luxury lighter-than-air passenger airship - on May 3, 1937 it left Frankfurt, Germany to cross the Atlantic for New Jersey.

Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 9 p.m. and Sunday, May 8 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sunday, May 8 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with PBS Video App! Long-overlooked footage of the 1937 Hindenburg disaster ...

The Hindenburg disaster became one of the most famous tragedies in aviation history after the massive German airship caught ...

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 ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. -- Tom Herman is a collector with an addiction. The career firefighter first got into collecting as a teen. "I got into collecting fire memorabilia and just kind of never ...

On May 6, 1937 an errant spark turned the hydrogen-filled airship Hindenburg into a fireball and sent it crashing to the ground, killing 36 people. News cameras filmed the fiery crash and live radio ...

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 son ...

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