Dec. 04, 1989: Detained:Mathias Rust TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989 Dec. 04, 1989 Women Face The '90s
Time Magazine MILESTONES, Page 101

DETAINED. Mathias Rust, 21, who made international headlines as a teenage pilot in May 1987 when he flew a Cessna 172 over 500 miles of Soviet territory to land at Moscow's Red Square; for an alleged assault on a student nurse; in Hamburg. According to police reports, Rust stabbed the nurse after she resisted his advances. He told interviewers this year that he chose civilian over military service because he was opposed to violence.