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Lin died when an aircraft carrying him and several members of his family crashed in Mongolia at 3:00 am on 13 September 1971, allegedly after attempting to assassinate Mao and defect to the Soviet Union.
Matters came to a head in September 1971 when Lin himself was killed in what the Chinese asserted was an attempt to flee to the Soviet Union after an abortive assassination plot against Mao. Virtually the entire Chinese high military command was purged in the weeks following Lin’s death.
Lin Biao (born Dec. 5, 1907, Huanggang, Hubei province, China—died Sept. 13, 1971?, Mongolia?) was a Chinese military leader who, as a field commander of the Red Army, contributed to the communists’ 22-year struggle for power and held many high government and party posts.
Feb 10, 2022 · Joseph Torigian: I think the most interesting document in your book is what Lin Liheng [Lin Biao’s daughter, better known as Lin Doudou] wrote on the 26th of October 1971 about the September 13 Incident [when Chinese Defense Minister Lin Biao fled and died in a plane crash in Mongolia].
In September 1971, Lin Biao's plane crashed in Mongolia under mysterious circumstances. It was later revealed that Lin had attempted to flee to the Soviet Union after Mao had accused him of plotting a coup d'état against the Chinese Communist Party.
Within two years, however, Lin Biao and his family were dead. They were aboard a plane that crashed in Mongolia in September 1971, apparently while fleeing China to the Soviet Union. The reasons for Lin’s flight and the plane crash have been obscured by the communist regime in China; as a result they are unclear and hotly debated by historians.
Sep 14, 2020 · Yet, on September 13, 1971, the plane in which Lin Biao was aboard, mysteriously crashed after supposedly running out of fuel while flying over Mongolia. The Chinese reported that no person aboard the Trident 1-E aircraft had survived.1
