In 1987, at the height of the cold war, 19-year-old Mathias Rust flew a daring 'peace mission' from Helsinki to Moscow, evading Soviet Union air defenses for 500 miles before landing his single-engine Cessna in Moscow's Red Square.

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Mathias Rust made headlines when he piloted a rented Cessna across the Iron Curtain, landing it in Red Square in front of the Kremlin on 28 May 1987.   The West German teenager regarded his unauthorized landing as a peace mission.

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