A ceremony honoring the 36 people who died as a result of the May 6, 1937, crash will start at 6:30 p.m. The featured speaker at the event will be Horst Schirmer, who flew on the Hindenburg when ...

Tonight’s season finale episode of the Ghost Hunters brought the TAPS team to the crash site of the German zeppelin the Hindenburg, at the Lakehurst Naval Base in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

The Hindenburg, a German passenger airship, was destroyed May 6, 1937, as it tried to dock at what was then Lakehurst Naval Air Station, now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. The base here ...

JOINT BASE MC GUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST - For the first time in five years, the crash site of the German airship Hindenburg will be briefly opened to the general public — for a Saturday evening ...

The Navy Lakehurst Historical Society, both commemorating the victims of the 1937 Hindenburg disaster and providing a look into the still-active naval base there, provides tours of the crash site ...

From there, drivers follow a guide onto the base and to the Hindenburg memorial site. The guides provide ... The fire and crash occurred after a gust of wind shifted the nose of the airship ...

‘First media event’ “I think the Hindenburg disaster was the first media event ... Iannaccone said during a recent tour of the site. What happened they all wondered.

The proceeds from the family's share of the sale will go toward that care. More: Hindenburg crash site to be opened to public Saturday Nevertheless, there are mixed feelings, Lamont said.

which maintains the Hindenburg crash site. The fabric covering was gone, leaving the duralumin skeleton standing for a moment before it buckled and collapsed. "It took only 34 seconds to burn ...

said in remarks he delivered at the crash site that many of the crew — whom he knew personally as a child in his native Germany — believed that foul play brought down the Hindenburg.

According to Aerospaceweb.org, "a non-profit site operated by engineers and ... The true cause of the tragedy may never be known. But the Hindenburg disaster remains an eerily compelling story ...

Eight decades later, Doehner is the only one left to remember what it was like on the Hindenburg that night. A ceremony commemorating the disaster will take place at the crash site Saturday night.