List of airship accidents
The following is a partial list of airship accidents.

List of airship accidents

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Table Section Text: The following is a partial list of airship accidents.

Date	Incident	Deaths	Injured

12 June 1897	Deutschland falls over Tempelhof Field in Berlin killing Friedrich Hermann Wölfert and his mechanic Robert Knabe.	2	0

2 May 1902	Semi-rigid airship Pax explodes over Paris, killing Augusto Severo and Georges Saché.	2	0

13 October 1902	Separation of gondola from the Bradsky's envelope over Paris kills Herlad de Bradsky and Paul Morin.	2	0

30 November 1907	French Army airship Patrie broke loose from its mooring during a storm and was blown over the English Channel; after sightings in Wales and Ireland and a brief touchdown in Belfast, the airship was blown out over the Atlantic Ocean and was never seen again.	0	0

23 May 1908	Morrell airship falls over Berkeley, California. All 16 survive but some with serious injuries.	0	16

5 August 1908	Zeppelin LZ 4 caught fire near Echterdingen after it broke loose from mooring and was blown into some trees.	0	0

25 September 1909	French Army's La République crashes near Avrilly, Allier killing four.	4	0

13 July 1910	Airship Erbslöh explodes over Rhenish Prussia killing all five.	5	0

15 October 1910	American non-rigid airship America disappeared without a trace off Nova Scotia after being abandoned by its crew.	0	0

4 May 1911	British Army's Morning Post is blown off course during descent. It crashed into trees and houses before bursting and seriously burning one French mechanic.	0	1

24 September 1911	HMA No. 1, more commonly known as the Mayfly was the first rigid airship to be built in the UK.	0	0

2 July 1912	Privately owned Goodyear-built airship Akron explodes on transatlantic attempt off Atlantic City killing all five, including inventor Melvin Vaniman.	5	0

4 September 1912	Budapest, Hungary. Military Airship, three soldiers killed while engaged in military training manoeuvres.	3	0

9 September 1913	Imperial German Navy L 1 (Zeppelin LZ 14) crashed in a storm north of Heligoland. 14 drowned, 6 survivors.	14	6

17 October 1913	Imperial German Navy L 2 (Zeppelin LZ 18) caught fire and was destroyed during a test flight. All 28 killed.	28	0

20 June 1914	Austro-Hungarian Army Militärluftschiff III, destroyed in a collision with an army Farman HF.20 over Fischamend. All seven on airship killed along with the two in the biplane.	9	0

3 September 1915	Imperial German Navy L 10 (Zeppelin LZ 40) destroyed by fire on 3 September 1915 after being struck by lightning near Cuxhaven, killing 19 crew members.	19	0

10 November 1915	Imperial German Navy D.1 (Schütte-Lanz type SL6) explodes after take-off over Seddin, killing all 20.	20	0

17 November 1915	Imperial German Navy L 18 (Zeppelin LZ 52) destroyed in shed fire at Tondern.

1 February 1916	Imperial German Navy L 19 (Zeppelin LZ 54) comes down in the North Sea, off the coast of the Netherlands, after an air-raid on the United Kingdom.	16	0

21 February 1916	In an experiment to launch a BE.2C fighter from under a SS-class non-rigid airship, Neville Usborne and another British officer are killed.	2	0

12 May 1916	French airship CM-T-1 destroyed by fire near Porto Torres, Sardinia while en route to Fréjus/St Raphaël, France.

16 September 1916	Imperial German Navy L 6 (Zeppelin LZ 31) caught fire during inflation in hangar at Fuhlsbuttel and destroyed along with L 9 (Zeppelin LZ 36).

7 November 1916	Imperial German Army LZ 90 (Zeppelin LZ 60) disappeared without a trace after it broke loose in a storm and was blown out to sea.

20 October 1917	Imperial German Army L 45 (Zeppelin LZ 85) performed a forced landing near Sisteron, France due to fuel exhaustion; all 17 crew were taken captive after the commander set the airship on fire.	0	0

12 December 1917	"North Sea"-class blimp N.S.5 sets off for RNAS East Fortune, but both engines fail within sight of her destination, and she drifts with the wind for about 10 mi (16 km) before they can be restarted.

5 January 1918	Ahlhorn hangars explode destroying the LZ 87 (L 47), LZ 94 (L 46), LZ 97 (L 51), LZ 105 (L 58), and SL20.	15	134

7 April 1918	Imperial German Navy L 59 (Zeppelin LZ 104) explodes over Malta for reasons unknown, killing all 21 crew.	21	0

2 July 1919	US Navy blimp C-8 explodes while landing at Camp Holabird, Maryland, injuring ~80 adults and children who were watching it. Windows in homes a mile away are shattered by the blast.	80+

15 July 1919	Royal Navy North Sea class airship N.S.11 burns over the North Sea off Norfolk, England, killing twelve. In the early hours of 15 July on what was officially supposed to be a mine-hunting patrol, she was seen to fly beneath a long "greasy black cloud" off Cley next the Sea on the Norfolk coast and a massive explosion was heard shortly after.	12	0

21 July 1919	American airship Wingfoot Air Express caught fire over downtown Chicago, 2 passengers, one crewmember and 10 people on the ground killed, 2 parachuted to safety.	13	28

19 June 1920	US Navy Goodyear airship D-1, A4450, is destroyed by fire at the Goodyear Wingfoot Lake Airship Base, Suffield Township, Portage County, Ohio.

6 February 1921	Soviet military airship Krasnaya Zvezda (ex-French Astra-Torres AT-13) crashed.

7 July 1921	US Navy airship C-3 burned at Naval Air Station Hampton Roads, Norfolk, Virginia

23 August 1921	British R38. Built for US Navy and already carrying "ZR-2" markings, broke in half and burned after suffering structural failure during high-speed trials over Hull.	44

31 August 1921	US Navy airship D-6, A5972, burned in hangar fire at NAS Rockaway along with airships C-10 and H-1 and kite balloon A-P.

21 February 1922	US Army airship Roma (ex-Italian T34). Hit power lines in Virginia and caught fire. 34 killed, 11 survivors.	34	8

17 October 1922	U.S. Army's largest blimp, C-2 (A4419), catches fire shortly after being removed from its hangar at Brooks Field, San Antonio, Texas for a flight.	7

21 December 1923	French Navy's Dixmude (ex Zeppelin LZ114). Struck by lightning over Mediterranean near Sicily and explodes in mid-air.	50	0

10 October 1924	US Army blimp TC-2 explodes over Newport News when a bomb it was carrying detonates. Two of the crew of five were killed.	2

3 September 1925	US Navy USS Shenandoah (ZR-1). Caught in storm over Noble County, Ohio, and broke into several pieces.	14

25 May 1928	Italian semi-rigid Italia. Crashed on return from successful trip to North Pole.	8

5 October 1930	British experimental design R101. Dived into ground during rainstorm in France.	48

11 May 1932	Abortive landing of USS Akron at Camp Kearny, California – ropes pull three members of the mooring crew high into the air; two fall to their deaths, the third is saved.	2	1

4 April 1933	USS Akron. Lost at sea off coast of New Jersey in severe storm.	73	3

4 April 1933	US Navy airship J-3 A7382 lost in surf off New Jersey coast with two crew killed while looking for USS Akron survivors.	2

16 August 1934	Soviet SSSR-V7 Chelyushinets burned in its hangar at Dolgoprudny along with SSSR-V4 Komsomolskaya Pravda and SSSR-V5; the fire was caused by a lightning strike.

12 February 1935	USS Macon crashed off coast of Point Sur, Monterey, California after crosswinds broke an already damaged section. 2 dead, 81 survivors.	2

24 October 1935	Soviet SSSR-V7 bis hit a powerline near the Finnish border causing a fire, one crew member died while the rest managed to escape.	1

6 May 1937	German LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire while landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey. 35 dead, 1 on ground killed, 62 survivors.	36

6 February 1938	Soviet SSSR-V6 OSOAVIAKhIM – 13 out of 19 crew died after crashing into a mountain some 300 km south of Murmansk on a practice flight for an arctic rescue mission.	13	3

6 August 1938	Soviet SSSR-V10 crashed near Beskudnikovo killing all seven crew.	7	0

8 June 1942	U.S. Navy blimps G-1 and L-2 collide mid-air, killing twelve including five civilian scientists.	12	0

16 August 1942	Designated Flight 101. The two experienced crew of the U.S.	2	0

19 April 1944	U.S. Navy airship K-133, of Airship Patrol Squadron 22 (ZP-22), operating out of NAS Houma, Louisiana, was caught in a thunderstorm while patrolling over the Gulf of Mexico.	12	1

21 April 1944	The southeast door of blimp hangar at NAS Houma, Louisiana, was chained open due to a fault. A gust of wind carried three K-class blimps, all of ZP-22, out into the night.

16 May 1944	Training accident at Lakehurst, New Jersey kills ten of eleven crewmen of K-5 as it crashes into the number one hangar.	10

2 July 1944	U.S. Navy blimp K-14 crashes off Maine, killing six of the ten crewmen.	6	4

7 July 1944	U.S. Navy blimp K-53 falls into the Caribbean, killing one of her crew of ten.	1

17 October 1944	U.S. Navy blimp K-111 crashes on Santa Catalina Island, California, killing seven of her ten crewmen.	7

5 November 1944	U.S. Navy blimp K-34 crashes off the coast of the State of Georgia, killing two of eleven crewmen.	2

3 May 1945	A Navy blimp's fuel tanks explodes over Santa Ana, California killing eight of nine.	8

29 January 1947	Soviet airship Pobeda gets caught in a powerline and crashes killing all three on board.	3	0

14 May 1959	US Navy ZPG-2 crashes into hangar roof during a dense fog at Lakehurst, New Jersey killing one and injuring 17.	1	17

6 July 1960	US Navy N class blimp ZPG-3W crashed into the sea off New Jersey. 18 of the 21 crew were killed.	18

8 October 1980	The 170-foot EA-1 Jordache blimp, N5499A, leased by Jordache Enterprises Co., crashes at Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst, New Jersey on its maiden flight.	0	0

1 July 1986	The experimental Helistat 97-34J, utilizing the envelope of a retired US Navy ZPG-2W N class blimp, crashes at Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst in Lakehurst, New Jersey during a test flight, killing one.	1	0

4 July 1993	US LTA 138S airship Bigfoot, which bore the Pizza Hut logo, crashed on top of buildings in Manhattan. The cause included inadequate FAA standards according to the NTSB report.	0	2

23 May 1994	WDL-1B airship was attempting to land in Giessen, Germany when a sudden gust of wind lifted it. Ten of the ground crew tried holding it down but eight let go of the ropes.	2	0

11 September 1994	Airship International blimp bearing the Gulf Oil logo crash lands on a house at Framimgdale, Long Island having lost gas pressure.	0	0

May 1995	The Goodyear blimp GZ-20 Eagle, tail number N10A, suffered a deflationary incident, when the blimp struck the ground near the Carson, California, mooring site while unmanned.	0	0

1 July 1998	Icarus Aircraft Inc. / American Blimp Corporation ABC-A-60, N760AB, encountered severe downdraft on positioning flight from Williamsport, Pennsylvania to Youngstown, Ohio, and was substantially damaged when it impacted trees at 1105 hrs.	0	0

28 October 1999	The Goodyear blimp GZ-22 "Spirit of Akron", N4A, crashed in Suffield Township, Ohio, when it suddenly entered an uncontrolled left turn and began descending.	0	1

16 June 2005	A model GZ-20 Goodyear blimp named Stars and Stripes (N1A), crashed shortly after take off in Coral Springs, Florida. No one was injured.	0	0

26 September 2006	The Hood blimp, an American Blimp Corporation A-60, crashed into a wooded area of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. The airship left Beverly Municipal Airport at about 1215 hrs.	0	0

14 June 2011	A Goodyear Blimp operated by The Lightship Group in Reichelsheim (Wetterau), Germany caught fire and crashed, resulting in the death of Michael Nerandzic, an experienced pilot whose last-minute actions saved the lives of his three passengers.	1

14 August 2011	The Hangar-1 blimp operated by The Lightship Group broke free of its mooring in Worthington, Ohio, crash landing in a yard.	0	0

4 May 2012	An Israeli spy blimp crashed when a crop duster struck the blimp's side.

28 October 2015	An experimental United States military defense airship became untethered in Maryland, and drifted 100 miles north crashing in Anthony Township, Pennsylvania.

24 August 2016	The Hybrid Air Vehicles HAV 304 Airlander 10 suffered cockpit damage, but no injuries, and dragged a mooring rope through power lines near the airfield, as a result of an anomalously steep approach and landing on its second test flight at Cardington Airfield in Bedfordshire, England.

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The crash of R101 British airship was an airship accident in the 1930s.

final_sentence: The crash of R101 British airship was an airship accident in the 1930s.