Forget 50%, the US Navy built five rigid airships. ZR-1 through ZR-5. The only one that wasn’t destroyed by a crash that also killed most if not all of its cr

Forget 50%, the US Navy built five rigid airships. ZR-1 through ZR-5. The only one that wasn’t destroyed by a crash that also killed most if not all of its crew was ZR-3 and its history is filled with so many near-disasters that it was pure chance that the rigid airships program didn’t have a 100% loss rate.