Claim: Joaquín Loriga, an aviation pioneer, attempted and failed the 128 hour first long-distance flight from Madrid to Manila.
Evidence: As a Captain promoted in 1926, together with two pilots and three mechanical engineers, the first long-distance flight from Madrid to Manila of over eleven thousand miles. The trip, which took 128 flight hours, hopped through North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Macao, Aparri in northern Luzon and then finally on to Manila. Only Loriga's plane completed the flight.