Mathias Rust: How A Teenage Pilot Landed A Cessna On A Moscow Bridge In 1987

Have you ever heard the story of how an 18-year-old amateur German pilot managed to invade Soviet airspace and land his rented Reims Cessna F172P aircraft on a bridge near Red Square in Moscow? On May 13th, 1987, Mathias Rust took off from Uetersen Airfield near Hamburg with plans to fly around Northern Europe for the next two weeks. His journey would ultimately end in spectacular fashion.



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