Mathias Rust (DR documentary)

Original URL: dr.dk/Tema/rust

[@erictaylor5462]

19:00 "Hello, mom. I am in jail. I have been arrested." "Okay, we will come to bail you out. Where are you?" "Moscow."

[@lyudmilaaksan2232]

I envy him being able to fly as a teen, I'm just a year younger. As young people, we often think we are invincible and can do more than humanly possible.

[@buildmotosykletist1987]

do you know he stabbed a nurse who rejected him? he's a nutter.

[@Unicorn-on9to]

I like that Rust pointed out the absurdity of the circumstances back then. I was the same age and moved from Denmark to Hamburg at the same time. When I had experienced the divided Berlin a few times, I had friends from Denmark visiting. We stood by the Reichstag and looked at the nearby wall. One of my friends just burst out: "How ridiculous. Why don't they just remove it?". A wall built by the East to "protect them from the West" even though all it did was keeping people from the East from fleeing to the West. The wall fell the year after.

[@Ozymandias1]

They told the people the fascists would invade if the wall wouldn't have been there. It was officially named the Anti Fascist Protection Wall.

[@GlamorousTitanic21]

This is worthy of a movie.

[@erictaylor5462]

3:30 This is a control yoke. Some planes have a control stick, but only male pilots have a joy stick.

[@demef758]

We live in crazy times. Females allegedly can now have joy sticks, too.

[@band3kafsh]

A factual error in the first minute. He didn't land in Red Square. He landed on the nearby Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge.

[@ralfbaechle]

Here's another one. The Cessna 172 shown at 1:24 is a Cessna Reims 172N model with a Danish registration. Rust flew a German registered Reims Cessna 172P. The Reims models were being manufactured by Reims Aviation in Reims, France.

[@JohnJones-oy3md]

And then he went on to nearly stab a woman to death.

[@Olebull93]

Its true he knife stabbed a nurse, where he had to serve 2 and a half year in jail. Picking up a a knife against a woman, hes clearly a *psycopath*

[@demef758]

Wikipedia says "The victim barely survived." Which is it? He certainly has had post-flight mental issues, I must say.

[@Ozymandias1]

He was a bit nuts and also became a poker player but later got a job in finance and now lives a rather boring life.

[@snubbedpeer]

It is very annoying with all that flimmering that have been added to the video, perhaps to make it look older. I wish you hadn't added it.

[@JanusTroelsen]

snubbedpeer the production company added it. I ripped it off a flash based website

[@ab8588]

I wonder in KAL 007 Disaster influenced the Soviet planes that intercepted Rust once he entered Soviet airspace.

[@Celtic2Realms]

Very good flying across the water and across the Soviet Union and be able to find Moscow and Red Square. Good piloting

[@erictaylor5462]

1:00 That is not tarmac. You can tell because it's green and furry looking. That stuff is called grass. Tarmac is black or light gray depending on how it's mixed or how old it it. It is flat, hard, and waterproof. I think the word you are looking for is "ramp" witch is where you park airplanes at an airport.

[@demef758]

I think the word you are looking for is "which"...

[@DukeCannon]

I was stationed in S Korea at the time. Things ramped up for a while after that incident. The N/S What are they doing kinda thing.

[@anthonymercuri7020]

@14:48: "It was like my heart fell down in my pants" = "I had my heart in my mouth" in English, apparently :D Take note: American mouths are in their pants.

[@anne-droid7739]

No, the saying in English is, "My heart was in my throat."

[@anthonymercuri7020]

@@anne-droid7739 www.dictionary.com/browse/heart-in-one-s-mouth--have-one-s forum.wordreference.com/threads/my-heart-was-in-my-mouth-throat.2217532/ dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sb-s-heart-is-in-his-her-mouth idioms.thefreedictionary.com/heart+is+in+mouth www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heart%20in%20one%27s%20mouth

[@anne-droid7739]

@@anthonymercuri7020 No, no, no, son--you were supposed to take the opportunity to make a joke about Deep Throat! It was such a ripe set-up for you....

[@anthonymercuri7020]

@@anne-droid7739 Oh sorry I didn't realise you were being playful. I thought you were being a Karen. :p

[@madzen112]

Cold War Rock Star

[@chucksirron6346]

Hero

[@kennedysingh3916]

Very interesting

[@sambrown8636]

I don't remember film in the 80s being so noisy. Somebody been playing with the "make it look old" effects button?

[@bacchus2726]

Yes, somebody has played with that button: at the time when this documentary was made there was a feeling of "cold war is long over now". And this year (2022) we find that this chapter isn't over at all......

[@iijj]

Yeah, looks terrible at times

[@I_Stole_A_BTR-80]

That's not noise, that's damage to the film. And there is quite a bit of film from the 80s with such prevalent damage throughout most or all of the film.

[@parteitagkonstantinthernen5191]

mister rust jou must flay to north korea

[@washingtonassis2931]

This guy is crazy! Hahahahahaha

[@patmctallica3522]

this gay has a very high criminal potential and had some apperiances on court. torday he`s a prfessional poker player. What else?

[@maximorlov8208]

Mathias Rust was not "a gift from above", it was a well-planned sectet service operation.

[@maximorlov8208]

Media is controlled and therefore biased. Look at what's going on around Trump.

[@patmctallica3522]

next idiot.

[@Unicorn-on9to]

Don't be daft: he dared what we all the same age at that time thought would be a fine challenge to expose the situation then.