What is the Hindenburg Disaster?
If you’ve ever heard the phrase, “oh, the humanity,” you’ve heard of the Hindenburg disaster, perhaps unknowingly. At a time when aviation was still in its infancy, the German company Luftschiffbau Zeppelin created the largest airship ever to sail the skies. The LZ129 Hindenburg was an astonishing 803.8 feet (245 meters) in length, and 135.1 feet (41 meters) in girth, roughly the size of the ocean-going Titanic. It completed many successful trips in its first year of service and was the first commercial transatlantic airship, but on a rainy evening at a Naval airbase in Lakehurst, New Jersey, the Hindenburg came to a spectacular and fiery end.
