Mathias Rust considered as a domestic training plane defying regulations, and was issued least priority. Around 7:00 p.m. Rust appeared above Moscow. He had initially intended to land in the Kremlin, but he reasoned that landing inside, hidden by the Kremlin walls, would have allowed the KGB to arrest him and deny the incident. Therefore, he changed his landing spot to Red Square. Heavy pedestrian traffic did not allow him to land there either, so after circling about the square one more time, he was able to land on Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge by St. Basil's Cathedral. A later inquiry found that trolleybus
Rust Never Sleeps tells me more about my life, my country and rock & roll than any music I've heard in years." "Rust Never Sleeps" was voted the second best album of 1979 in "The Village Voice"s annual Pazz & Jop critics poll. Christgau, the poll's creator, ranked it second on his own list for the poll, as did fellow critic Greil Marcus. The album also won "Rolling Stone" magazine's 1979 critics poll for Album of the Year. In a decade-end list for "The Village Voice", Christgau named it the ninth best album of the 1970s. In 2003, "Rust Never Sleeps" was ranked