Trial of M. Rust in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. Citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany, 19-year-old amateur pilot Matthias Rust (center), accused of hooliganism, illegal entry into the USSR and violation of international flight regulations, during a session 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