Even though airship accidents have a reputation for having a disastrous loss of life, in truth, the records state something else.

Listed below are the totals of the worst airship accidents in the world to date, to contradict and hopefully change some of the public opinion

	Location	Date	Airship	Incident
1	Off the Atlantic coast, USA.	4 April 1933	ZRS 4 – Akron	73 people killed when the US navy airship Akron crashed into the sea in a storm
2	Over the Mediterranean	21 December 1923.	Dixmude	52 people killed when the French airship Dixmude was apparently struck by lightning.
3	Near Beauvais, France.	5 October 1930.	H.M.A. R 101	48 people killed when British airship R101 was forced down during a storm.
4	Off the coast near Hull, UK.	24 August 1921	H.M.A. R38 /ZR II	44 people killed when airship R38 broke in two during a low turn trial, on a training and test flight.
5	Lakehurst. New Jersey, USA.	6 May 1937	D-LZ129 Hindenburg	36 people killed when the Hindenburg caught fire and crashed.
6	Hampton Roads, Virginia, USA.	21 February 1922	Airship Roma	34 people killed when airship Roma crashed, killing all but 11 people on board.
7	Berlin, Germany.	17 October 1913	LZ 18	28 people killed when German airship LZ18 crashed after engine failure during a test flight.
8	Baltic Sea.	30 March 1917	SL 9	23 people killed when German airship SL9 was struck by lightning on a flight.
9	Mouth of the River Elbe, Germany.	3 September 1915	L 10	19 people killed when German airship L10 was struck by lightning and plunged into the sea.
10 – Joint	Off Heligoland.	9 September 1913	L 1	14 people killed when German navy airship L1 crashed into the sea
10 – Joint	Caldwell, Ohio, USA.	3 September 1925	ZR1- Shenendoah	14 people killed when US dirigible Shenandoah broke up in a storm, scattering sections over many miles of the Ohio countryside.