In the beginning of 1976 there an international scandal broke out: Soviet Air Force pilot Viktor Belenko escaped USSR together with his newest MiG-25 jet. He landed in Japan first and then asked for a refuge in USA. In Soviet country he left a wife and four kids. He never saw them again.
During training flights when a Soviet top general arrived to Vladivostok he decided to escape. He disappeared from radars instantly. It looked like his plane plunged and was going straight down, into the sea, and he was dead. Emergency rescue teams went on search. However it came out later that he cheated the radars. He went down but didn’t crash – flew on very small altitudes away and hid behind a huge mountain nearby.
This photo above was made right after he landed on a civil air field in Japan.
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