Mathias Rust

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mathias Rust
Occupation	Pilot
Date Of Birth	Jun 1, 1968(1968-06-01)
Age	56
Birthplace	Wesel
Country	Germany
Birth City	North Rhine-Westphalia
Horoscope	Gemini

Mathias Rust Biography

Mathias Rust is one of the most popular and richest Pilot who was born on June 1, 1968 in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. German pilot who was illegally landing close to the Moscow’s Red Square in 1987.

He was not stopped when he flew over 500 miles over Soviet territory. This caused the Soviet leader He was not intercepted while flying over 500 miles of Soviet territory. This fact led Mikhail Gorbachev to sack the Soviet aviation minister. to fire his position as Soviet Aviation Minister.

Mathias Rust (born 1 June 1968) 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.

Because Rust’s flight seemed like a blow to the authority of the Soviet regime, it was the source of numerous jokes and urban legends. For a while after the incident, Red 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.

He was born living in West Germany at the height of the Cold War.

Mathias Rust Net Worth

Mathias Rust is one of the richest Pilot from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mathias Rust 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The desire to restore relations from the Cold War inspired him to take on his suicide flight.

He was just 18 an old, when he completed his famous flight and was unexperienced as a pilot.

Rust’s rented Reims Cessna F172P (serial #F17202087), registered D-ECJB, was sold to Japan where it was exhibited for several years. In 2008 it was returned to Germany and was placed in the Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin.

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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. Since then he has lived a fragmented life, describing himself as a “bit of an oddball”. After being released from court, he converted to Hinduism in 1996 to become engaged to a daughter of an Indian tea merchant. In 2001, he was convicted of stealing a cashmere pullover and ordered to pay a fine of DM10,000, which was later reduced to DM600. A further brush with the law came in 2005, when he was convicted of fraud and had to pay €1,500 for stolen goods. In 2009 Rust described himself as a professional poker player. Most recently, in 2012, he described himself as an analyst at a Zurich-based investment bank.

Facts & Trivia

Mathias Ranked on the list of most popular Pilot. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Mathias Rust celebrates birthday on June 1 of every year.

Following the 20th anniversary of his flight on 28 May 2007, the international media interviewed Rust about the flight and its aftermath.