Official statement of 1933: "

2nd Report to the Duce

This morning we started from Reykjavik with great difficulty, due to the wind direction that forced us to a long towing maneuver.The weather, in the first part of the route, was announced bad, but the Labrador coasts were predicted to be free mists and clouds; which decided to order the departure. The first two hours of travel were very hard; no visibility of leaden sky with clouds on the sea. We were forced to navigate the water and often with blind navigation. From the third to the fifth hour the flight was a nightmare. We flew in a fog so dense that it hardly made out the ends of the wings of the fixtures. To escape the danger of ice formation on the wings we kept only a hundred meters of altitude in order not to lower the temperature. Released outdoors, I tasted the clouds because the newsletters gave me sky covered for ten tenths for about one thousand kilometers and I was lucky enough to find clear skies for about eight hundred meters of altitude. The flight has thus been facilitated. From the tenth to the twelfth hour we found almost cloudy skies and rough seas. The headwind hampered our march allowing us an average of only 200 kilometers per hour. Because of the takeoff and the flight in the fog the formation was very disjointed, but all the squadrons arrived at Cartwright in a narrow patrol of three aircraft. As I write, he regularly ammums the twenty-fourth. The crews have been up to the task entrusted to us by V. E. for the prestige and fortune of fascist Italy. Italo Balbo "