19 yr. old German pilot lands plane right next to the Kremlin, 1987
Mathias Rust was your average 19-year-old teenager with a particular interest in politics. As an amateur pilot, he decided to fly his single-engine plane over 500 miles from his home country of Germany to the gates of the Kremlin in Moscow. He flew right past the Soviet military defense systems and was even tailed by Soviet fighters that had requested permission to shoot down the small plane but they never got the go ahead. Rust would be jailed for a year for his bold move.