Mathias Rust is a German pilot born on June 01, 1968. He is best known for his daring flight in 1987 when he flew a private plane from Helsinki, Finland to Red Square in Moscow, Russia. His net worth, biography, age, height, family and career updates are available online.
Mathias Rust is a member of Pilot
💰 Net worth: Under Review
German pilot who landed illegally near Moscow's Red Square in 1987.
His desire to repair Cold War-era relations inspired him to undertake his near-suicidal flight.
He was only eighteen years old when he made his historic flight, and he was quite an inexperienced pilot.
He grew up in West Germany at the height of the Cold War.
He was not intercepted while flying over 500 miles of Soviet territory. This fact led Mikhail Gorbachev to sack the Soviet aviation minister.
