AIRSHIP HISTORY CROPS UP AGAIN, AGAINST MY BETTER JUDGEMENT

Why is it that

1. In the development of ships at sea, a Titanic can go down in 1912 with vast loss of life, but the continued development of ships at sea did not even slow down. Apparently, that was acceptable to the world.  BUT

2. a Hindenburg airship can have an accident in 1937, with a minimal loss of life, and the entire development of airships comes to a grinding halt --- in people's minds .

How does Conventional Wisdom operate to produce this anomalous effect ?

We have devoted this Web Log to the Future of Airships, yet the question of History's Influence continues to intrude in people's minds ?