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A TEENAGE West German who foiled Soviet air defence systems to fly a small plane from Finland to Moscow and land at the gates of the Kremlin is under interrogation by military intelligence officials, Soviet sources said yesterday. Tass's report, more than 24 hours after Rust touched down next to St Basil's Cathedral in Red Square, was the first mention of the incident by the Soviet media. One Western analyst said the incident had astounding implications for the debate on how a war could start by mistake.

[Matthias Rust], who flew a single-engine Cessna plane undetected across a vast space of Soviet territory and landed at Red Square in 1987, was held in a Soviet prison for 14 months before he was released in August 1988.

[Matthias Rust] flew a single-engine Cessna plane undetected across a vast space of Soviet territory and landed at Red Square in May, 1987. He was held in a Soviet prison for 14 months before he was released in August, 1988.

Boos echoed from the public gallery as Matthias Rust, the young German who embarrassed the Kremlin by landing a plane in Moscow's Red Square in 1987, was sentenced Friday to 2 1/2 years in jail for attempted manslaughter. Rust, 23, was convicted of stabbing a student nurse after she rebuffed his attempts to kiss her in the locker room of a Hamburg hospital where he worked two years ago as an alternative to military service.

On the first day of his trial, [Matthias Rust] testified that the woman had called him a \"rutting ram\" during the incident in 1989, and accused him of making the daredevil flight to Moscow just to make himself look important.

[Matthias Rust] acknowledged his guilt on the first two charges but has contested the charge of hooliganism. The trial began Wednesday and a verdict is expected today after Rust and his Soviet lawyer address the judge and his two lay assistants.

Teen-age pilot Matthias Rust met with his Soviet lawyer Tuesday on the eve of his trial for the daring flight to Red Square that astounded millions and shook the Soviet defense establishment.

A West German teen-ager who hedgehopped a light plane through the vaunted Soviet air defense system from Finland right to the Kremlin violated Soviet air space by flying into the country through Estonia, Tass said Friday.

\"My flight was not the best action to bring this about. I'm very sorry,\" [Matthias Rust], a 19-year-old resident of suburban Hamburg, said during nearly five hours of testimony on the first day of the trial at the Soviet Supreme Court. It was his first public appearance since he piloted a Cessna 172b across the Soviet border on May 28 and set it down amid hundreds of astonished pedestrians on Red Square near the Kremlin, the seat of Soviet power. The flight led to a shake-up of the Soviet military establishment.

West German diplomats have not seen [Matthias Rust] since he was detained in Red Square shortly after landing there at about 7 p.m. Thursday. A West German Embassy spokesman said on Sunday that German diplomats met with Soviet officials on Saturday at the Foreign Ministry and that they had been promised a meeting with Rust \"at the beginning of the week.\"