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
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