 During the landing the airship had to release approximately 24,000 cubic meters of hydrogen to balance the ship before landing it.A Zeppelin of the size of the LZ 129 Hindenburg on a flight from Frankfurt am Main to Lakehurst consumed approximately 54 tonnes of diesel with a buoyancy equivalent of 48,000 cubic metres of hydrogen, which amounted to about a quarter of the lifting gas used at the start of the flight (200,000 cubic metres).After the landing, the jettisoned hydrogen was replaced with new hydrogen.