Trial of M. Rust in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. September 4, 1987. The family of amateur pilot Mathias Rust, accused of hooliganism, illegal entry into the USSR and violation of international flight regulations, during the final session of the Criminal Cases Panel of the Supreme Court of the USSR. On May 28, 1987, Mathias 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