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Mathias Rust's plane just prior to illegally landing in Red Square, Moscow, in the Soviet Union, 1987
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust#The_flight
Wild stuff.
"On 24 November 1989, while doing his obligatory community service (Zivildienst) as an orderly in a West German hospital, Rust stabbed a female co-worker who had rejected him."
Nice
This sorta sounds like the soldier who ran to north korea recently in some ways.