Mathias Rust flight on 28 May 2007, the international media interviewed Rust about the flight and its aftermath. "The Washington Post" and "Bild" both have online editions of their interviews. The most comprehensive televised interview available online is produced by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. In their interview "Rust in Red Square", recorded in May 2007, Rust gives a full account of the flight in English. Mathias Rust Mathias Rust (born 1 June 1968) is a German aviator known for his illegal landing near Red Square in Moscow on 28 May 1987. An amateur pilot, the teenager flew from Helsinki, Finland, to Moscow,
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land still another reworking of the escapist adventure stuff that proved so popular in the film "Airport". A later review by Dave Sindelar noted that the film was a cross between "Marooned" (1969) and the "Airport" movies. It also relied heavily on stock NASA footage to its detriment. As well, "Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land" was "... slow-moving, mired by disaster-movie style cliches, implausible, and has plenty of dead spots." Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land (also known as Starflight One or Airport 85) is a 1983 television film directed by Jerry Jameson and