Mathias Rust Square was jokingly referred to by Muscovites as Sheremetyevo-3 (Sheremetyevo-1 and -2 being the two terminals at Moscow's main international airport). At the end of 1987, the police radio code used by law enforcement officers in Moscow was allegedly updated to include a code for an aircraft landing. Shortly after the incident, SubLogic, the original publishers of the "Flight Simulator" franchise, issued a scenery disk that expanded the original program's coverage area to include the Eastern Bloc. A challenge in the expansion pack was to land in Red Square as Rust had just done. Following the 20th anniversary of his
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