

The Cessna 172 Skyhawk sports plane that Matthias Rust, a West German amateur pilot used to fly to Moscow and landed on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge on May 28, 1987, breaching Soviet air space without authorization.
- Categories: Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts & War, Disasters & Accidents, Politics, Crime, Law & Justice
- Location: Moscow, Russia
- Event date: 02.09.1987
- Date published: 20.12.2023
- Author: Yuryi Abramochkin
- Credit: Sputnik
- Original: 87-12547, 35 mm film
- Media: JPEG, 5378x3543px, 13.5Mb