Originally Posted by
A Squared
He didn't mean that almost every airship *type* suffered catastrophe, he meant that almost every individual *airframe* suffered catastrophe. That's a significantly different proposition.
Submarines from that era had a low survival rate too.
Does that mean modern ones cannot be safe?
Passenger aircraft from that era also were not exactly safe either.
You have to compare in context, which will be tricky because there were not many helium filled airship with the shape maintained by gas pressure at the time.