The Bremen passed over the lakes at the source of the George. The crew saw nobody on the ground but people on the ground sighted the plane. The Bremen was seen flying over North West River on the shore of Lake Melville. It was Greenly Island in the Strait of Belle Isle. The Strait separates Newfoundland from Labrador and Quebec on the mainland.
Greenly Island is about four miles inside the boundary of the Province of Quebec.
Just as the Bremen came to a stop, it broke through the ice. The tail then projected about 20 feet into the air. Everybody got wet but everybody was safe. After two weeks of fruitless attempts to repair the Bremen and fly it to New York, the three flyers arrived in New York by other means. The parade was on Sat.