In 1933, Captain Mariano Barberan and Lieutenant Joaquin Collar crossed the Atlantic Ocean at its widest point, aboard the Cuatro Vientos. It was a non-stop flight that connected Spain and Cuba and opened a new aerial route between Europe and Central America that is still in use. The second stage of the flight, from Cuba to Mexico, was apparently much simpler, yet it was marked by tragedy. The Cuatro Vientos plane and its two crew members disappeared mysteriously forever.