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.
Aeroflot Flight 2230 Aeroflot Flight 2230 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Yekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk) to Tashkent that crashed after takeoff on 16 November 1967, killing all 107 people aboard (including twelve children). The exact cause of the accident remains unknown. At the time it was the deadliest aviation accident in the Russian SFSR and the worst accident involving the Il-18.