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Bookmark or Share- R101 airship crash: 'Hope and sadness' on 90th anniversaryThe R101 set off on its maiden flight on 4 October 1930 and crashed a day later, killing 48 people.
- The Life and Tragic Death of R101, The World’s Largest Flying MachineThe tragic story of the British airship R101—which went down in a spectacular hydrogen-fueled fireball in 1930, killing more people than died in the Hindenburg disaster seven years later—has been largely forgotten.
- The Airship Heritage Trust : R101 Crash - airshipsonline.comR101 - The Final Trials and Loss of the Ship. Over the summer of 1930, the R101 lay in the Number 1 shed at Cardington undergoing extensive modifications, which were needed following on from her 1929 and early 1930 trial flights.
- R101: The British Airship Involved In A Deadlier Accident Than The ...Today marks 92 years since an accident involving R101, an experimental British airship built in 1929. The vessel was one of two such dirigibles to be produced in the UK to cultivate the country's long-haul airship travel network.
- British Airship R.101 Crashes, Killing 48 – This Day in 1930On October 5, 1930, the British airship R.101 crashed on a hill in Beauvais, France. The impact was gentle and survivable but the ship was inflated with hydrogen, and the resulting fire incinerated 46 of the passengers and crew. Two additional crew members died of their injuries soon after. An Avoidable, Political Catastrophe.
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