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The Hindenburg disaster was an airship accident that occurred on May 6, 1937, in Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.The 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. [1]
Hangar No. 1 is an airship hangar located at Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst in Manchester Township, in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.It was the intended destination of the rigid airship LZ 129 Hindenburg prior to the Hindenburg disaster on May 6, 1937, when it burned while landing.
Hindenburg disaster marker. The installation was the site of the LZ 129 Hindenburg disaster on 6 May 1937. Despite the notoriety and well-documented nature of this incident, today there is a simple memorial that denotes the location of the crash at then–NAS Lakehurst in the field behind the large airship hangars on base.
Newsreel footage of the 6 May 1937 Hindenburg disaster, where the zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg crashed and burned down, was filmed by several companies. The film is frequently shown with narration, by WLS (AM) announcer Herbert Morrison, who was narrating a field recording on to an acetate disc, and was present to watch the zeppelin's arrival.
It was the site of the 1937 LZ 129 Hindenburg airship disaster. During World War II , anti-submarine patrol blimps were operated from Lakehurst. Since the 1950s, Aviation Boatswain's Mates have been trained at Lakehurst to operate catapults and arresting systems on aircraft carriers.
Soviet semi-rigid airship SSSR-V7bis hits power lines near the Finnish border and catches fire; one crew member dies while the rest manage to escape. 1 6 May 1937 German LZ 129 Hindenburg catches fire while landing at NAES Lakehurst, New Jersey. 35 dead, plus one killed on ground, 62 survivors. 36 6 February 1938
Following refurbishment during the winter, Hindenburg set out on her first flight to North America for the 1937 season (she had already made one return trip to South America in 1937) on 3 May, bound for New York. This flight would end in tragedy with Hindenburg being utterly consumed by fire as it prepared to dock at NAS Lakehurst in New Jersey.
The New York Times reported, erroneously, that "The Soviet Union claimed the North Pole as its own today to hold forever on the grounds that it was the first to establish a permanent settlement in the vicinity," [134] although the Associated Press noted only that "Eleven Soviet pioneers of the Arctic air routes" had claimed an ice floe 13 miles ...