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,
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