 After some test flights, and breaking the record for flight duration, Hünefeld and Köhl flew to Baldonnel, Ireland, where they met James C. Fitzmaurice, the Irish Air Corps Commandant of the Baldonnel Aerodrome.On 12 April, 1928, these three left Baldonnel in the "Bremen" and crossed the Atlantic Ocean, landing at Greenly Island on the south coast of Labrador, Canada.Even though they missed their intended destination, New York City, they were the first to cross the Atlantic by fixed-wing aircraft from Europe to America, almost nine years after the initial success at an East-West crossing by a British rigid airship.