LZ 129 '' Hindenburg '' carried passengers , mail and freight on regularly scheduled commercial services from Germany to North and South America . These were stopped after the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 , with only some thirty European test and government-sponsored flights of its completed sister airship , the LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II , before the '' LZ 130 's '' breakup in Germany in April 1940
Hindenburg disaster
Hindenburg disaster
Rigid airship