The World - News from May 22, 1989
A Soviet MIG-29 jet fighter was flown back to the Soviet Union, but its wounded pilot, who defected Saturday, remained in Turkey where officials were considering his request for U.S. asylum. Turkish officials turned over the plane to a crew that arrived aboard a Soviet transport at the Turkish air base at the Black Sea city of Trabzon. Soviet air force Capt. Alexander Zuyev, 28, was still recovering in a Trabzon hospital from a bullet wound, suffered when he commandeered the jet and flew to Turkey.
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