Mathias Rust
Mathias Rust (
1968 - ) is a German pilot, who flew from
Hamburg, passed the Soviet air defense and landed on the
Red Square near the
Kremlin,
Moscow, using a
Cessna 172 B on
May 28,
1987, at the age of 19.
His trial started in Moscow on September 2, 1987. After a prison sentence of 18 months in Soviet Union, he was returned to Germany on August 3, 1988.
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