https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airship_accidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airship_accidents The popular narrative that airships were ended

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airship_accidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airship_accidents The popular narrative that airships were ended by the Hindenburg disaster is a misleading oversimplification; the truth is the Hindenburg was only the final straw and helium airships had already proven themselves to be very dangerous as well. They were marginally safer, but not substantially so. Even when they didn't burn, airships were prone to being destroyed by a stiff breeze. The deadliest airship disaster of them all was a helium airship broken up by the wind, the USS Akron: 73 dead, 3 survivors. Compared to the Hindenburg's 36 dead, 62 survivors. This said, in some of those accidents the hydrogen's flammability played a larger role in the fatalities. When R101 crashed, a lot of people survived the crash to the ground but subsequently perished in the hydrogen fire. Contrast that with the USS Shenandoah, which broke up midair in the wind. 14 men were killed but 29 survived by riding pieces fragments of the destroyed airship down to the ground.