May 28, 2004

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  17 YEARS AGO TODAY

  
  

  

  
  

  May 28 1987
  

  German teenager Matthias Rust baffles the Russian Ministry of Defence by successfully piloting his hired Cessna over 400 miles of Russian airspace and landing in Red Square, buzzing the Kremlin on the way in.

  
  

  He serves 18 months in prison for this prank, which also costs the commander of the Soviet Air Command his job.

  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Doctoral Candidate :		Dipl.-Inf. Matthias Rust
  Specialized Fields :		Practical computer science, Database and Information Systems
  Focal Point :		multimedia content management for video

  
  
  
  
  
  

  Dipl.-Inf. Matthias Rust ZGDV, Zentrum für Graphische Datenverarbeitung e.V. Joachim-Jungius-Straße 11, 18059 Rostock Phone: +49(0)381/4024-172, Fax: +49(0)381/446088 Email: mrust@rostock.zgdv.de

  
  

  www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/(en)/de/ studium/gradkolleg/mitarb/rust.html

  
  

   

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