Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-17
Both Men in Plane Are In
jured as Craft 0verturnS at
Village Near Natal, About
$500 Miles From Spain.
LOST WAY OVER COAST,
MEAGER DETAILS HINT
Aviators Complete Leg Over Ocean
by Narrow Margin Before Being
Halted by Accident-Neither Is
Believed to Have Been Hurt
Seriously.

By the Associated Press.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, De-
cember 1.-THE transatlantic
flyers, Maj. Tadeo Larre-Borgeo
and Lieut.. Leon Challe, who left
Seville, Spain, Sunday on a nom
stop flight to Montevideo, Uruguay,
made forced landing last night
at the village of Maracuja in the
State of Rio Grande do Norte,
near Natal on the northeast tip of
Brazil.
Although the Uruguayan lega-
ton issued statement this after
noon reporting both the flyers to
have been seriously injured in the
landing, later advices Indicated
that the hurts Of both men were
less than had been feared and
that Maj. Larre-Borges had been
able to start for the town OF Santo
Antonio.
The transatlantic plane turned
over on landing in a wild spot near
the village and was wrecked.
Governor ACtS QuAchAy'
The governor of the State of Rio
Grande do Norte, rushed special
phvsician from the quarantine
station to Maracuja and several
officers to find out e.-actly what
happened to the transatlantic air
men.
Although the flyers failed of their
r,Irpose to make a nonstop 6,000-mile
hon to the capital of Uruguay, they
achieved the sixth successful crossing
of the South Atlantic and covered
distance of approximately $500 miles.
That they made the 2,0O0-mlle ocean
hop by Just a narrow nlaFg1ns was lfltll.
Gated by the fact that they were forced
to land near Natal, which is on the ex-
treme tip of the South American con-
tinent nearest to Africa. 1t was along
} this part of the Brazilian coast that
Capt. Francesca Iglesias and MS COM
panion, Capt. Ignacio Jiminez, LANDED
in October of this year on similar
flight from Seville to South America
First Attempt Failed.
Mai. Larre- -Borges, who is Uruguay
an. made an attempt to fly from Europe
? To South America in 1927, but made q
forced landing on the North AFRICAN
coast and for several weeks disappeared
w.
under escort of a Moorish caravan,
which held him for ransom.
Lieut.. Challe is distinguished French
flyer who has made many long distance
flights, in 1926 establishing a world
non-stop record UP to that time Tor
flight to Persia from France.
The two airmen took on from Sevlne,
Spain. at 12:40 pm. Sunday, Spanish
time, or TAO am. Eastern stanoaro
time. They last were heard from IN the
air at 8 o'clock last night, when they
were believed somewhere of the Brazil
ian coast They probably landed within
a few hours, which would indicate tnat
they were in the air about 40 hours be-
fore coming down.
Average Around 100 Miles.
throughout the flight they made ex-
ceIlent time, averaging well up TO IOu
miles an hour, but apparently they ran
into dificulties off the Brazilian coast.
They had shown anxiety regarding
weather conditions on the coast haVln5
sent several wireless messages asking
for information.
This morning the Brazilian authori-
ties made every effort to take relief TO
the fyers, and the head OF the postal
aviation service ordered plane 10 pro-
ceed Immediately to MaracuJa.
The village at which the flyers land
ed is quite close to Touros. which is the
point at which Capt. Arturo Ferrarln
and his companion, Maj. Carlo del
Prete. landed in July, 1928, when they
established a new world fight distance
record. recently broken by Capt. Dleu-
donne Coste, the noted French alrman'
p on a fight from France to China.
With the news of the airmen's land-
Ing at Maracuja, crowds Of eager slgnt-
seers began TO leave the surrounding
countryside for the village.
First reports of the landing reacheu
the outside world by way Of a 5maLi
private telegraph line to Natal.
Apparently Lost Their Way.
From the meager advices Whlcn
trickled over this line. it appeared that
the airrnen lost their way after striking
the coast and landed at point about
60 miles from the coast near the bor-
der line of the States of Rio Grande DC
Norte and Parahyba. The landing was
made some time between pm. anc
midnight (between pm. and 10 pm
Eastern standard tinle). Thls Woulc
mean that the flyers were in the air be-
tween SO and 80 hours.
The aviatorS were found by grouI
of horsemen from the interior who were
riding toward the coast. The spot a
which the machine came down wa
distant from habitations.