May 2, 1928, Hünefeld and his two companions were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Round-the-world flight attempt On 18 September 1928 von Hünefeld and Swedish pilot Karl Gunnar Lindner took off from Berlin in the Europa in an attempt to fly around the world. In Bushire, Iran, they met Friedrich Karl von Koenig-Warthausen who went on to complete the first solo circumnavigation principally by air. After they arrived in Tokyo on 20 October, the flight was abandoned because of poor weather conditions and Hünefeld's declining health. Hünefeld died in February 1929 in Berlin from stomach cancer and is buried in the Landeseigener Friedhof Berlin-Steglitz cemetery. References Literature 1892 births 1929 deaths Aviation pioneers 20th-century German aviation German aviators Barons of Germany Military personnel from Königsberg People from East Prussia Deaths from stomach cancer German aviation record holders German Army personnel of World War I Deaths from cancer in Germany