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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loaded his passengers on a craft designed for no more than 14 people, then flew 150 ft. above ground across Rumania and Hungary into Austria. After dodging high-tension wires, mountaintops, watchtowers, even barbed-wire fences, he made a bumpy landing in a rain-soaked cornfield, where Farmer Herbert Kaspar, 50, was working. Reported Kaspar: "For a while there was no sound, no movement. Finally a door opened, and the pilot got out. 'Austria?' he asked. I said, 'Ja, Austria.' He began smiling and sobbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Freedom-Bound by Air | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

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