„Wenn ich gewusst hätte, was sich daraus entwickelt – ich würde es nicht noch mal wagen“, sagt er heute. Seine naive Friedensidee hat ihn zwar zu einem gefragten Mann gemacht. Sogar ein Theaterstück ...

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 ...

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 ...

The memorial was opened just ahead of the 35th anniversary of the flight, by Mathias Rust, which falls today, Saturday, while the location, Saka Manor in Ida-Viru County, lies at the point where Rust ...

Frieden wollte Mathias Rust der Menschheit bringen, er träumte von der idealen Gesellschaft und hatte sich dafür sogar schon einen schönen Namen ausgedacht: "Lagonia" - eine Welt ohne Eisernen Vorhang ...

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, ...

This week 30 years ago, a teenager called Mathias Rust evaded fighter jets and the world’s most sophisticated air defence technology to land a light aircraft in the heart of Moscow. Dr Robin Stott ...

Von Hamburg aus startet der damals 18-jährige Hobbypilot Mathias Rust im Mai 1987 seinen spektakulären Flug, der ihn innerhalb von 15 Tagen bis auf den Roten Platz nach Moskau führt. Nach der sich ...

It’s been a rough couple of months for drone enthusiasts in the U.S. capital. In January, a drone manufacturer decided to disable its devices within the boundaries of downtown Washington, D.C., after ...

May 28, 1987, turned out to be a bad day for two of the most senior members of the Soviet Union’s military. The reputedly impregnable air defenses that ringed Moscow had been breached, a disaster for ...