What city was the landing site for the Soviet fighter pilot whose biography was written by John Barron in 1980?
Viktor Belenko Viktor Ivanovich Belenko (Russian: Виктор Иванович Беленко , born 15 February 1947) is a former Soviet pilot who defected to the West while flying his MiG-25 'Foxbat' jet fighter and landed in Hakodate, Japan. The opportunity to examine the plane up close was an intelligence bonanza for the West. Belenko later became an American aerospace engineer.
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.