Anniversary of LZ-8 Accident: May 16, 1911

On this day in 1911 the DELAG airliner LZ-8 (Deutschland) was destroyed in an accident. Hugo Eckener was in command of an airship for the first time and LZ-8 had barely left its hangar when it was pulled away from its ground crew by a gust of wind.  The

The accident which made Hugo Eckener the responsible captain he was later on the long Zeppelin journeys. Do not forget as a journalist he was against this idea of travelling the skies.