Rimantas_Stankevičius
Rimantas Stankevičius
Soviet-Lithuanian pilot (1944-1990)
Rimantas Antanas Stankevičius (Lithuanian: Rimantas Antanas Stankevičius, Russian: Римантас Анта́нас Станкявичюс; 26 July 1944 in Marijampolė, Lithuania – 9 September 1990 in Salgareda, Italy) was a Lithuanian test pilot and cosmonaut in the Soviet space shuttle Buran programme. He was killed in a crash of his Su-27 fighter plane during an airshow in Salgareda.[1][2]