Hindenberg disaster

Named after Germany's 4th (pre 1945) president Paul von Hindenburg, the Hindenburg was an airship used for air travel before the advent of modern airbus.
Filled with the flammable gas hydrogen, the Hindenburg left Frankfurt, Germany for Lakehurst Maxfield Field, an air station in Manchester Township, New Jersey where it caught fire on 6 May 1937 at when preparing to land with its mooring mast. It crashed down, killing 35 people which included 13 passengers and 22 crewmen out of the 97 on board) while 23 passengers and 39 crewmen survived. The harrowing crash was caught on news reels and audio of a distraught Herbert Morrison's eyewitness report (including his cry of "Oh the humanity!") made their rounds not long after the crash. The Hindenburg disaster snuffed out public interest in travel by airship but that hasn't stopped airships from disappearing from the sky completely.