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 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