Гость из Швеции в воздушном пространстве полуострова Кыпу

September 19, 1981. A 35-year-old Swede with aviation papers had kicked off Långbro Psychiatric Hospital and asked for a plane at Bromma Airport to make a few detours over Stockholm. In fact, he wanted to travel to Estonia. The Swede had ended up in a mental hospital with a knife after attacking her mother. Before that, a Polish woman had killed him. At home, the Swede had met an Estonian abroad, who told him beautiful stories about Estonia. Thus, he had an irresistible desire to live, work and also treat his illness in Estonia.

On the day when a small Swedish plane flew to Hiiumaa, the air force stationed in Haapsalu held a joint exercise with the border guard. Probably because, considering the invader to be an imitation of the enemy, he was not given much attention at Ristna's radar station: the military recorded his appearance on the radar, reported it to his superiors, and continued to perform other combat missions. It so happened that Cessna Skyhawk reached the west coast of Hiiumaa without hindrance, where it was finally noticed by a conscript guarding the border guard observation tower.

The plane landed on Vilima meadow. The Swede spent a few days in the Kärdla command post, then was taken by a border guard helicopter to Tallinn and from there to Leningrad, where he was handed over to the Swedish consul, who in turn sent him back home with a neurologist from Stockholm.

The responsible Soviet refugees in Hiiumaa finally showed ingenuity and turned an embarrassing incident that reduced their fighting ability to their advantage. The border guard wrote a heroic story about how the Swedish flight was under constant control, and a grandiose operation was launched with the people and the local population to catch him.

The plane was returned to Sweden. The famous flight of the German Mathias Rusti to Moscow through the iron-guarded Soviet air defense system took place seven years later.