What the records say
- When
- 13 Sep 1971
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 47.70° N, 111.25° E
- Description
- crash of a Hawker Siddeley Trident
- Deaths
- 9
Lin Biao incident
1971 aircraft crash in Mongolia
On 13 September 1971, the aircraft transporting Lin Biao, the sole vice chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, crashed near Öndörkhaan, Mongolia. Lin and several members of his family were travelling on board a Hawker Siddeley Trident jetliner of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). All nine people on board were killed in the crash.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в авиакатастрофе в Монголии вместе со своей семьёй погиб Линь Бяо, китайский политический деятель, бывший «правой рукой» и официальным наследником Мао Цзэдуна”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “九·一三事件：中共中央副主席林彪乘飞机外逃，坠机死亡于蒙古温都尔汗。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page