Viktor Belenko
Soviet MiG-25 pilot who defected to the West · United States · On the map · Lived 1947 to 2023 · aged 76
Viktor Ivanovich Belenko was a Soviet-born American aerospace engineer and pilot who defected in 1976 to the West while flying his MiG-25 "Foxbat" jet interceptor and landed in Hakodate, Japan.
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George H. W. Bush, the Director of Central Intelligence at the time, called the opportunity to examine the plane up close an "intelligence bonanza" for the West. Belenko later became a U.S. aerospace engineer.
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Lived 1947 to 2023 · aged 76
