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Ex. 2. Read the description of the occurrence.Landing in the Centre of MoscowMathias Rust, a 19-year-old amateur aviator from West Germany, was flying a rented Reims Cessna 172. After leaving Uetersen near Hamburg on May 13, 1987, Rust refuelled his aircraft in the morning of May 28, 1987 at Helsinki- Malmi Airport. He told air traffic control that he was going to Stockholm, but right after his final communication with traffic control he turned his plane to the east. Traffic controllers tried to contact him as he was moving around the busy Helsinki-Moscow route, but Rust turned off all the communications equipment aboard. Rust crossed the Baltic coastline in Estonia and turned towards Moscow. At 14.29 he appeared on air defense radar but did not reply to an IFF* signal. The military tracked his aircraft for some time, but failed to obtain permission to launch at him. Soon after, he disappeared from radars near Staraya Russa. Air defense re- established contact with Rust's plane several times, but confusion followed all of these events. The local air regiment near Pskov was on maneuvers, and, due to in- experienced pilots' tendency to forget correct IFF designator settings, local control officers assigned all traffic in the area friendly status, including Rust. Near Torzhok there was a similar situation, as increased air traffic was created by a rescue effort for an air crash that had happened the previous day. Rust, flying a slow propeller-driven aircraft, was confused with one of the helicopters taking part in the rescue. Several interesting events coincided with the final part of his route. The con- trol system of the Central Air Defence District was unexpectedly turned down for unscheduled maintenance, and all flights around Sheremetyevo airport were for- bidden for about twenty minutes — just for the time Rust was above it. The ori- gins of these events are still unknown. Around 7.00 p.m. Rust appeared above Moscow's center. He had initially in- tended to land in the Kremlin, but due to lack of proper landing space reverted to Red Square. Heavy pedestrian traffic didn't allow him to land there either, so after circling about the square one more time, he finally was able to land on a bridge by St. Basil's Cathedral. After taxiing past the Cathedral he finally stopped about 100 meters from the square, where he was greeted by curious passersby. He was arrested soon afterwards and sentenced to four years for hooliganism, disregard of aviation laws and infringement of the Soviet airspace. He served his time at the Lefortovo jail in Moscow. * IFF – a secondary surveillance radar based on the military Identification, Friend or Foe technol- ogy (запросчик системы опознавания государственной принадлежности цели). жүктеу/скачать 1.29 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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