- Who
- Heinrich Kubis
- What
- first
- Where
- Germany ()
- When
The first person to act as a steward or cabin attendant on an aircraft was Heinrich Kubis (Germany), who began attending to passengers on board the DELAG Zeppelin LZ-10 Schwaben in March 1912. Kubis initially worked on the flights alone but was later supported by an assistant steward on board the 20-passenger LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin. He also took the role of chief steward on the famous 72-passenger LZ-129 Hindenburg, where he led a team of male stewards, and was on board when it burst into flames at Lakehurst in New Jersey, USA, on 6 May 1937; he escaped with his life by jumping out of the window as the cabin neared the ground.
