> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Verzonden: Monday, January 07, 2002 16:35 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: Re: tampa
> > In hindsight, that Cessna landing in Red Square in 1987 was a portent > > of the end of Soviet Russia. > > > > 1. The Soviet Air Force didn't stop it from getting there > > > > 2. The pilot lives today. > > What are we talking about? Am lacking information. You mean you missed that spectacle? It made headlines all over the world. In 1987, a 19 years old German guy called Mathias Rust managed to fly a Cessna 172 B from Hamburg (Germany) to Moscow, apparently without being detected by the Soviet military, and landed on the Red Square near the Kremlin (May 28, 1987). The fact that he was not detected was a huge embarrasment to the Soviets. He spent 18 months in a Soviet prison and then returned to Germany. Detail: it was especially embarrassing because May 28 was also (rough translation) "Day of the Soviet Border Forces" -- the same forces that despite their hundreds of fighter planes and SAM�s failed to detect a Cessna entering their air space... Real nice guy, BTW. After returning to Germany he did community service for a while in a hospital in Rissen. He fell in love with one of the nurses, but when she rejected him he stabbed her with a knife and was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for attempted murder... In April 2001, he was fined DM 10,000 for stealing Kashmere pullover from a department store in Hamburg. He even has his own fanclub: Mathias Rust Fanclub, www.angelfire.com/on/mrust/ Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
