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 ...

Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Mathias Rust, a west german teenager who landed a Cessna sports plane in Red Square on May 28, 1987, on trial for invading Soviet air space. Mathias Rust, a west ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mathias Rust, who stunned the world as a teenager when he landed his Cessna plane in Moscow's Red Square, has re-emerged 20 years later to reveal his regrets about his peace mission. Mr Rust, now 39, ...

He was an amateur pilot with 50 hours' flying experience under his belt when youthful folly, his political convictions, or probably a mixture of both prompted the lanky, bespectacled 19-year-old ...

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, ...

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 ...