Trial of M. Rust in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. September 4, 1987. Citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany, amateur pilot Matthias Rust, found guilty of hooliganism, illegal entry into the USSR and violation of international flight regulations and sentenced to four years in prison, (second from left) and his mother Monika, father Karl-Heinz and brother Ingo after the final hearing of the Criminal Cases Panel of the Supreme Court of the USSR. On May 28, 1987, Matthias Rust illegally crossed the border of the USSR in a Cessna 172 Skyhawk and landed on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow. Nikolai Malyshev/TASS