Who defected from Russia to the West at a Paris airport on 17 June 1961?
Paris–Le Bourget Airport crossing in 1927 in the "Spirit of St. Louis", and had been the departure point two weeks earlier for the French biplane "The White Bird (L'Oiseau blanc)", which took off in its own attempt at a transatlantic flight but then mysteriously disappeared. On 25 June 1940, Adolf Hitler began his first and only tour of Paris, with Albert Speer and an entourage, from Le Bourget Airport. On 16 June 1961, the Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected at Le Bourget Airport. In 1977, Le Bourget was closed to international airline traffic and in 1980 to regional airline traffic, but remains
Hakodate Airport Hakodate Airport Hakodate airport opened in 1961 with a single 1,200 m runway. A new terminal upgrade and runway extension to 2,000 m became operational in 1971. The runway was extended further to 2,500 m in 1978 and to 3,000 m in 1999. A new terminal building opened in 2005. On September 6, 1976, Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defected to the West by landing a MiG-25 Foxbat aircraft at Hakodate Airport. On June 21, 1995, All Nippon Airways Flight 857, a scheduled Boeing 747 flight from Tokyo to Hakodate, was hijacked by Fumio Kutsumi, a Tokyo bank employee armed with