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Mathias Rust - Wikipedia
"Mathias Rust (born 1 June 1968)[citation needed] is a German aviator known for his illegal flight that ended with a landing near Red Square in Moscow on 28 May 1987. An amateur pilot, the then-teenager flew from Helsinki, Finland, to Moscow, being tracked several times by Soviet air defence and interceptor aircraft. The Soviet fighters did not receive permission to shoot him down, and his aeroplane was mistaken for a friendly aircraft several times. He landed on Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, next to Red Square near the Kremlin in the capital of the Soviet Union."
" While doing his obligatory community service (Zivildienst) in a West German hospital in 1989, Rust stabbed a female co-worker who had rejected him. The victim barely survived. He was convicted for injuring her and sentenced to two and a half years in prison, but was released after 15 months.[13] Since then he has lived a fragmented life, describing himself as a "bit of an oddball".[14] After being released from court, he converted to Hinduism in 1996 to become engaged to a daughter of an Indian tea merchant."



What a damn legend ngl