Matthias The feat of Russian radars
Yesterday marked 20 years of one of the most heroic of modern aviation. Mathias Rust, a German, 19, rented a plane and took off from the airfield Uetersen (East Germany) due to Malmi, Helsinki (Finland). After a brief refueling said headed to Stockholm, but changed course and disappeared on purpose ...
... to appear right next to the Kremlin, Red Square in Moscow during the Cold War. He got off the plane safely and was arrested by the KGB. Obviously no one had permission to cross the airspace of the USSR and evade air defense system designed to detect and shoot down the USAF strategic bombers and fighter jets. In fact, the system mistakenly shot down a plane full of South Korean civilians in 1983, 269 innocent lives were lost.
How could he do?
Obviously, avoiding all air surveillance radars and MiG fighter patrols with infrared sensors. By then he was a novice pilot and was on his Flight Simulator version 2.0, which was seen as the next image and only reproduced the United States.
Undoubtedly, Mathias was played hide a lot and showed that the stone was passed by the Soviet air defense system easily!. The prank cost him a year or so MatÃas prison for minor crimes of vandalism, violation of civil aviation laws and Soviet borders.
Currently, his plane Cessna 172B, registration D-ECJB remains in a warehouse owned by a Japanese millionaire, hoping to increase value to sell. Today we complain about road safety cameras, but those when you do not bring down detected no questions asked.
Indeed, Mr. Rust now denies his feat and I wish it never happened and did not come out in the history books. Without doubt, a very humble person.
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