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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

1987: West German teenager Mathias Rust cracks the Iron Curtain with an incredible unauthorized flight from Helsinki to the heart of Moscow — and lives to tell the tale. The Cold War was still in full ...

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 ...

Copydude writes about two men who became (in)famous after they flew their light planes into Russia illegally: Brian Grover (1938) and Matthias Rust (1987). Global Voices stands out as one of the ...

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 ...

On May 28, 1987, Mathias Rust made headlines when he piloted a rented Cessna across the Iron Curtain, landing it in Red Square in front of the Kremlin. The West German teenager regarded his ...

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, ...