Mathias Rust 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, being tracked several times by Soviet air defence and interceptors. The Soviet fighters never received permission to shoot him down, and several times his aeroplane was mistaken for a friendly aircraft. He landed on Vasilevsky Descent next to Red Square near the Kremlin in the capital of the Soviet Union. Rust said he wanted to create an "imaginary bridge" to the East, and
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land is to hit the atmosphere. The two craft ride in together, and once into the atmosphere, "XU-5" veers off while Cody fights to keep "Starflight" under control in a wild descent with damaged wings. Josh hurries outside, not wanting to listen to the communications. However, after a few minutes of silence, he hears "Starflight"'s distinctive engines, and turns to see it on final approach for landing. The film's visual effects were supervised by veteran effects guru John Dykstra's Apogee effects house. "Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land" made use of stock footage of launches by the space shuttle "Columbia" and