In 1987, a teenager with limited flying experience managed to fly straight into the heart of the Soviet Union, evading one of the world’s most formidable air defense systems and landing a small plane ...
In May 1987, Mathias Rust, an amateur German pilot, flew a rented Cessna aircraft from Finland to Moscow, evading Soviet air defenses and improbably landing on Red Square near the Kremlin. Rust's ...
The story of Mathias Rust's flight from Helsinki to Moscow in 1987 is probably one of the strangest episodes of the Cold War. Twenty-five years ago Rust, a 19-year-old German with about 50 hours of ...
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