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September 13 incident

1971 CE · People's Republic of China, Asia · Disaster

September 13 incident
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The Lin Biao incident was an aircraft crash at 2:30 a. m. on 13 September 1971 involving Lin Biao, the sole Vice Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. Everyone on board a PLAAF Hawker Siddeley Trident, including Lin and several members of his family, died when the plane crashed in Mongolia.

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