What Was the Lin Biao Incident?
We should bring up the Lin Biao incident while we're discussing unexplained airline crashes.
General Lin Biao was instrumental in the communists' victory and Mao Zedong's ascent to power during the Chinese Communist Revolution of the 1940s. Throughout Mao's rule, he remained significant, and in 1969, he was chosen to be Mao's successor. But Lin Biao and his family were murdered in a plane crash over Mongolia on September 13, 1971, therefore he was never given the chance to assume power.
The Chinese authorities first kept quiet about Lin's passing. The official narrative, according to which Lin Biao perished while escaping to the Soviet Union during a botched coup and assassination attempt against Mao Zedong, was not presented until the summer of 1972. Unsurprisingly, few individuals were persuaded by the tale.
The Soviet Union also sent spies to inspect the crash site in secret, but because they were also not keen on disclosure, their findings were kept under wraps until the end of the Cold War. They didn't confirm that Lin Biao was truly one of the victims of the trip until the 1990s, putting a stop to claims that Mao had him secretly executed or imprisoned before the jet even took off. All further information regarding the incident involving Lin Biao and the precise circumstances of his demise, however, is still unknown.
