Zeppelin LZ56 LZ 86

First flight : 10 October 1915

Class : P

operating from Konigsberg and Kowno airfield , 7 attacks dropping a total of 14,800 kg (32,600 lb) of bombs along the Eastern and South-Eastern front; crashed on 5 September 1916 at Temesvar , killing nine of the crew.

LZ 56 / LZ 86 178,50 m 35.800m³ Commanders Hptm Linnarz, Hptm W.Wolff
Ost und Sudeinsatz : Schneidemuhl bis 24.10.1915
Köningsberg bis 18.02.1916, dann Kowno.
Südosteinsatz : ab August 1916 im Szentendras .
Constructed 10/10/1915 at Löwenthal Decomissioned 04/09/1916
Succesfull raids on Dünaburg , Minsk, Plosetti ,

LZ 86 was send to Temesvar on 24 August 1916. On 4 September 1916 LZ 86 made here first attack on the oil refinery town of Ploesti. She attempted to land next morning, she crashed at high speed outside her base and was wrecked, most of the crew being killed, including her commander oberlt. Wolff.

Crashed owing to pilot error : few survivors...
rear gondola broke off....The airship with other crew landed into the neighbourhood, so a number of them survived ...
(No numbers mentioned of victims or surviving crew!)

Remark original size was 31,900 m³ later enlarged (as so many others!) to 35,800 m³.

Literature :

"Das Grosse Luftschiffbuch" by Peter Meyer

Warplanes WWI page 66

Wikipedia

Incident Zeppelin LZ.56 LZ-86, 04 Sep 1916 (aviation-safety.net)