She was the first passenger on round-trip commercial flights across the Pacific , between New York and Bermuda , and between San Francisco and New Zealand . However , she is remembered primarily as the first woman to fly across the Atlantic as a ticketed passenger aboard the Graf Zeppelin on its return flight from New York in October 1928 . Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic , on the outbound flight of the same journey , as a journalist . Adams also was the first woman to fly aboard the Dornier DO-X between New York and Rio de Janeiro and she was one of 11 women aboard the maiden flight of the Hindenburg . Despite the end of public interest of airships due to the Hindenburg disaster , Adams was still eager to fly on airships
Hindenburg disaster
Hindenburg disaster
Clara Adams