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Mathias Rust

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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 single-engine Cessna 172B on May 28, 1987, at the age of 19.

His trial started in Moscow on September 2, 1987. After a prison sentence of 432 days in the Soviet Union, he was returned to Germany on August 3, 1988.

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