The Hindenburg’s crash was remarkable and unexpected. The press present at the event planned on waiting to film once the ship landed, hoping to get views of passengers disembarking.

At the time, the Hindenburg was supposed to be ushering in a new age of airship travel. But the crash instead brought the age to an abrupt end, making way for the age of passenger airplanes.

Monday marks 87 years since the airship caught fire and crashed in New Jersey, causing 35 deaths. The Hindenburg departed from Frankfurt, Germany, on May 3, 1937, and was heading to Lakehurst ...

On May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg airship burst into flames over a New Jersey field. 75 years later, the disaster remains a source of mystery and fascination. The Hindenburg was one of the first ...

In the 1930s, zeppelins or hydrogen-filled airships looked like the future of commercial air travel. The Hindenburg, a German airship, ferried passengers across the Atlantic Ocean, reaching ...

Ocean County Freeholder John C. Bartlett Jr. recently said there is no doubt that the Hindenburg disaster was the single biggest historical event in the county's 167-year history, making the ...

Rigid zeppelins used to carry the rich and well-to-do across the Atlantic Ocean in style. But after the Hindenburg airship crashed in a fiery heap on May 6, 1937, that industry went up in smoke.

Herb Morrison's iconic broadcast about the Hindenburg crash, the scientist who discovered the hole in the ozone layer, the 'Pale Blue Dot' photo of Earth and inventing wingsuits. Show more Max ...