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Balloonists complete Pacific journey Two Eagles gas balloon completes record Pacific crossing
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Two Eagles balloon completes crossing of Pacific with sea-landing off Mexico, setting new milestones on six-day trip Two pilots in a helium balloon have completed their crossing of the Pacific with a sea-landing off Mexico, setting new milestones on a six-day trip.
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. American Troy Bradley and Russian Leonid Tiukhtyaev landed safely, their Two Eagles Balloon team said.
If you want to receive Breaking News alerts via email, or on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App then details on how to do so are available on this help page. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts. They claim to have beaten the world distance and duration records by flying for more than 137 hours and travelling more than 5,209 miles (8,383km).
To set the records the team needed to beat the existing records by 1%.