AIRSHIP DISASTERS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 95, 8 May 1937, Page 6

AIRSHIP DISASTERS

Sixteen Major Crashes Since 1912 | Following is a list of main airship! ! disasters: — July 2, 1912: Balloon Akron explodjed at Atlantic City, 5 fatalities. September 9, 1913: Zeppelin L-l de-1 [stroyed ofi Heligoland, 15 fatalities. j October 17, 1913: Zeppelin L-2 ex-l ploded over Johannisthal aeroarome, 28| fatalities. June 20, 1914: Airship and aeroplanel collided at Vienna, 9 fatalities. January 20, 1921: British dirigiblej jE-34 wrecked in gale at Howden, Engiland, no lives lost. July 15, 1919: British airship Ns-11! struck by lightning over Nortb Sea, 12| fatalities. July 21, 1919: Dirigible burnt overt Cbicago, 10 fatalities. August 24, 1921: Dirigible ZE-2 bougbt in England for TJnited States, frame buckled over Humber xiver, 42 fatalities. February 21, 1922: U.S. dirigiblej Roma, Italian built, bougbt by United1 States for tbe army from. Italy, crashed in flames near Hampton Boads army base after bitting high tension wires,; 34 fatalities. December 21, 1923: Frencb dirigible Dixmunde, presumably struck by lightning over Mediterranean, 52 fatalities.. September 3, 1925: TJ.S. dirigible She-j nandoab, formerly ZEI, American built, | wrecked in storm in Ohio, 14 fatalities. J May 25, 1928: Italian dirigible Italiai .crashed ia Arctic in fligbt to Nortb Pole, 8 fatalities. October 4, 1930: British dirigible] E-101 exploded over France on tbe way from England to India, 46 fatali-j ties. April 4. 1933: United States Navy dirigible Akron, American built, crashed in electrical storm off New Jersey, coast, 73 fatalities including Beax-Ad-: miral William A. Moffett, cbief of tbe the navy's Bureau of Aeronauitics, three survivors. February 13, 1935: Macon fell into] sea off San Francisco, loss of two lives. j (Besides tbe Zeppelins L-l and L-2 Count Zeppelin lost four otber great peace-time dirigibles in accidents, tho Zeppelins 3 and 6 and tbe Deutscblands 1 and 2.)