What city was the landing site for the Soviet fighter pilot whose biography was written by John Barron in 1980?
MiG Pilot: The Final Escape of Lieutenant Belenko MiG Pilot: The Final Escape of Lieutenant Belenko is a 1980 biography by John Barron about the life and 1976 defection of Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 fighter pilot Viktor Belenko to the United States.
Vladimir Sharpatov Vladimir Ilyich Sharpatov (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Шарпа́тов , born March 21, 1940, Krasnogorkiy village of Zvenigovsky District, Mari El) is an airplane pilot and Hero of the Russian Federation (1996). An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane under his command made a forced landing at the airfield near Kandahar, Afghanistan, in August 1995. All 7 Russian nationals on board were subsequently held captive by the Taliban for a year until they successfully escaped by flying their own plane out of Afghanistan in August 1996. Russian actor Alexander Baluyev played Vladimir Sharpatov in the 2010 film Kandagar.