The pilot who defected to Vietnam mentioned above is named Qiao Qinglu.
Qiao Qinglu was born in a Vietnamese revolutionary family, which led to Qiao Qinglu having a revolutionary complex from an early age. At that time, Vietnam under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh made the Vietnamese Communist Party and the Chinese Communist Party very close, because his father was a member of the Communist Party of Vietnam, often talked to Qiao Qinglu about the cause of communism, Qiao Qinglu longed for this place in China since he was a child.
Later, by chance, Qiao Qinglu came to China to live for a period of time, learned Chinese make friends, felt the China in his father's mouth, and deepened Qiao Qinglu's good impression of China.
After joining the army, Qiao Qinglu's national consciousness and revolutionary consciousness became stronger and stronger, and as Ho Chi Minh learned from the Communist Party's anti-war experience in China, and with the help of China, Vietnam achieved reunification, and the Vietnamese people, including Qiao Qinglu, had a deeper impression of China, and China also became the place that Qiao Qinglu most yearned for.
What is more worth mentioning is that during his joining the army, Qiao Qinglu showed extremely strong military talent, became an excellent helicopter gunship pilot, and was a rare talent who could complete the task brilliantly every time.
However, Qiao Qinglu did not expect that after the end of the Vietnam War, the Rising Lê Thanh clique in Vietnam began to do things that deviated from the Vietnamese Communist Party, became two-minded with China, and destroyed the Sino-Vietnamese friendly relations that Ho Chi Minh had so hard built, and even fell to the Soviet side, which had very poor relations with China.
Since then, Vietnam has made some small moves against China from time to time, completely forgetting what China did to help it, and even forcing China to open a self-defense counterattack mode against Vietnam, and even launching an attack on marginal countries. As young as Qiao Qinglu's father, who supported the Communist Party of Vietnam, he was naturally ostracized by the group.
Full of patriotic feelings, Qiao Qinglu did not want to see the current situation at all, and gradually had the idea of fleeing Vietnam, and he did not want to wait until he was finally forced to go to the battlefield to kill those he regarded as relatives. But because of his special status, Vietnam is unlikely to let him choose freely.
After having such a thought, Qiao Qinglu found that his friend also had such an idea, and slowly their small team that was ready to flee expanded to ten people, and they divided their work and cooperated, and found all kinds of small parts necessary for helicopters in the flea market, as well as the most important batteries and magnetic compasses, and everything was ready.
Just after Qiao Qinglu received the task of inspecting the Sino-Vietnamese border, he gathered nine other people, put on the fake military uniforms that had been prepared in advance, made a careful plan, performed his duties, boarded the plane safely and flew to China, and by the time the Vietnamese army found out, they had already flown out for a distance, facing the experienced Qiao Qinglu, they were unstoppable, and they flew all the way low to escape the Vietnamese radar, landing in a farmland in Guangxi after a two-hour flight.
After our troops immediately learned of all the causes and consequences, they were very happy, and with the appearance of the former senior leaders of the Communist Party of Vietnam who had taken refuge in Beijing at that time, Qiao Qinglu and ten other people were well arranged to become an aviation teacher on the land they felt was worthwhile and continue to make contributions.
Therefore, for the escape of Qiao Qinglu and others, there is no need to blame, nor to praise or disparage, this is actually a historical necessity, and it is a better way to abide by the beliefs in their hearts.