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 1987 a West German teenager shocked the world, by flying through Soviet air defences to land a Cessna aeroplane in Red Square. He was jailed for more than a year - but a quarter of a century later, ...

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 ...

A video of the event is here (takes user to dropbox file). On May 28 in 1987, 18-year-old German amateur pilot Mathias Rust, from Schleswig-Holstein, had just 50 hours' flight experience when he ...

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 ...

AS two-fingered gestures go, the 1987 flight of the young German Mathias Rust in a small plane through Soviet airspace - landing in Red Square - takes some beating. Artists Emma Rushton and Derek ...

Mathias Rust, the pilot known for his landing on Moscow’s Red Square, testified Monday in his attempted murder trial that the woman he allegedly stabbed had ridiculed his famous 1987 flight. Rust, 23, ...

Nikolai Malyshev/Alexander Konkov/TASS German amateur aviator Mathias Rust was arrested 10 minutes after touchdown On the evening of May 28, 1987 as the USSR celebrated Border Guard’s Day, a ...

Yitzhak Goldfine was the defender of billionaire fraudster Jürgen Schneider and of the pilot who illegally landed on the Red Square, Mathias Rust. His memoirs reveal new details on the cases. But are ...