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 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