> One thing often overlooked about the Hindenburg and its reputation as being a dangerous bomb with people hanging below it is that there were a substantial num

> One thing often overlooked about the Hindenburg and its reputation as being a dangerous bomb with people hanging below it is that there were a substantial number of survivors -- out of 97 passengers/crew, 62 survived. Hindenburg wasn't the deadliest airship disaster, it was just the final straw. It's the best known of the crashes because it was highly publicized and the last. The USS Akron crash killing 73 of 76 crewmen. There were no survivors from the 52 people on the Dixmude. 44 of 49 died in the R38 crash. 34 of 43 died in the Roma crash. 48 of 54 died in the R101 crash.