LZ 129 Hindenburg

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LZ 129 Hindenburg was a large German passenger airship best known for its catastrophic 1937 disaster that marked the end of the airship era.

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Label Occurrences
LZ 129 Hindenburg canonical 7
The Hindenburg 4

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf German aircraft
passenger airship
rigid airship
zeppelin
builtAtLocation Friedrichshafen
surface form: Friedrichshafen, Germany
causeOfDestruction fire
completedInYear 1936
constructionStartYear 1931
countryOfOrigin Germany
crewComplement 40–60
crewFatalitiesInFinalAccident 22
cruisingSpeed 125 km/h
designer Luftschiffbau Zeppelin
destroyedAtLocation Lakehurst, New Jersey
Lakehurst Naval Air Station
surface form: Naval Air Station Lakehurst
destroyedOnDate 1937-05-06
diameter 135 ft
41.2 m
engineType Daimler-Benz DB 602 diesel engine
enteredServiceDate 1936-03-31
fatalitiesInFinalAccident 36
firstTransatlanticFlightDate 1936-05-06
fleetRole transatlantic passenger transport
gasVolume 200000 m³
groundCrewFatalitiesInFinalAccident 1
hasMaidenFlightDate 1936-03-04
hasSisterShip LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II
length 245 m
804 ft
liftingGas hydrogen
manufacturer Luftschiffbau Zeppelin
maximumSpeed 135 km/h
namedAfter Paul von Hindenburg
notableEvent Hindenburg disaster
notableFor catastrophic 1937 fire and crash
largest airship ever built at time of completion
numberOfEngines 4
numberOfGasCells 16
operatedInYear 1936
1937
operator Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei
passengerCapacity 50
passengerFatalitiesInFinalAccident 13
plannedLiftingGas helium
primaryRoute Germany–Brazil
Germany–United States relations
surface form: Germany–United States
registration D-LZ129
structureType duralumin frame
survivorsInFinalAccident 62
totalPassengersCarried over 2700
totalTransatlanticCrossings 63

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Zeppelin airships notableModel LZ 129 Hindenburg
Donn Cambern editedFilm LZ 129 Hindenburg
this entity surface form: The Hindenburg
Jeffrey Byron notableWork LZ 129 Hindenburg
this entity surface form: The Hindenburg
Jeffrey Byron appearedIn LZ 129 Hindenburg
this entity surface form: The Hindenburg
Nelson Gidding notableWork LZ 129 Hindenburg
this entity surface form: The Hindenburg
Luftschiffbau Zeppelin notableWork LZ 129 Hindenburg
Hindenburg disaster involvedVehicle LZ 129 Hindenburg
LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II sisterShipOf LZ 129 Hindenburg
LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II predecessor LZ 129 Hindenburg
LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II designSimilarTo LZ 129 Hindenburg