Corrections & Clarifications: This story was updated to correct the location of the Hindenburg airship disaster. Remember that day a blimp blew up in Redding? Probably not, unless you’re around 125 ...

In May 1937, the Hindenburg suddenly burst into flames, killing thirty-five and the dream of commercial airship travel. “Oh, the humanity and all the passengers screaming around here. I told you, I ...

Describes the last voyage of the zeppelin, or airship, Hindenburg, which crashed in flames on a New Jersey airfield in 1937, and examines some possible causes for the ...