The MIG That Flew Rogue
Aviation History
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7m 37s
On the 4th of July 1989, a strange incident would occur in Europe. Over the course of an hour, various air forces would be put on high alert as a Soviet MIG-23 flew across central Europe. What wasn’t known, until after the aircraft had been intercepted and visually identified, was that this MiG-23 was on a pilotless sortie of its own volition.
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