The Boeing 747 aeroplane looks very big but the Hindenburg was three times longer over 240 metres long it was about the same size as the. Titanic but it only carried about a hundred people while the Titanic carried 2000 the Hindenburg was an airship floating in the air like a toy balloon because it had hydrogen gas inside this gas Burns very easily made in Germany the Hindenburg started carrying passengers across the Atlantic between Germany and America in 1936 on may the sixth 1937 the airship caught fire as it arrived at largest airport near new York a cameraman made a film of the accident so people will never built another airship to carry passengers