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Who killed Lin Biao's plane?
Kang Tingzi, who served as Lin Biao's co-captain, told the unknown truth and discovered the secret behind the mystery of Lin Biao's crash, which is far beyond ordinary people's imagination!
Lin Biao's No. 256 aircraft
Why did Lin Biao's plane crash suddenly?
Some people say that we brought it down ourselves. Some people also say that Mongolia thought that enemy planes had invaded its airspace and shot them down.
There are also witnesses who said that the plane itself caught fire in the air and fell.
However, both the mainland and Mongolia have clarified the statement that Lin Biao's plane was "shot down."
At that time, some people suspected that Premier Zhou, who was in charge of arresting Lin Biao, ordered Lin Biao's plane to be shot down with missiles.
However, Premier Zhou also made it clear that he has no leadership position in the army at all, so how can he have the power to give orders to the army to shoot down the plane of the vice chairman of the CPC Central Committee?
Moreover, not only did Premier Zhou not have the right to order the shooting down of Lin Biao's landline in the army, but also those veteran commanders who had leading positions in the army did not have the right to order the shooting down of Lin Biao's landline when they did not receive instructions from the highest level.
Because Lin Biao's level at that time was also far above these generals.
So strictly speaking, the only person who is qualified to give this order is Chairman Mao.
But there are also historical materials to confirm that Chairman Mao said this sentence earnestly after learning that Lin Biao had fled by opportunity:
"It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, let him go. Lin Biao is still the vice chairman of the party, how can he explain to the people of the whole country after he is defeated?"
It can be seen that the leaders at that time had no intention of putting Lin Biao to death immediately.
As for the Mongolian side, although they were wary of the Chinese plane that suddenly intruded into their airspace, Mongolia itself did not have the ability to shoot down the plane, so it could only lodge a diplomatic protest with China at the first time, and informed its big brother, the Soviet Union, and let the Soviet Union help it make the decision.
So is it possible that the Soviet Union helped Mongolia to defeat it?
Obviously, it is impossible, because as we all know, Lin Biao's escape destination is the Soviet Union, so the Soviet Union has no reason to kill Lin Biao. Even if the Soviet Union did not know that Lin Biao was sitting in the No. 256 trident at that time, there was no reason to directly knock Lin Biao down.
And in the context of the hostility between China and the Soviet Union at that time, the Soviet Union has always been quite concerned about the case of Lin Biao's death, and immediately sent someone to go directly to the scene of the crime for investigation.
In the end, the Soviet personnel not only looted many valuable objects, including the black box, but even took Lin Biao's head down and brought it back to Moscow.
This may sound a little scary, but the Soviet Union's move is actually to determine whether it is Lin Biao himself by examining the shape of Lin Biao's teeth.
When Lin Biao was injured in the backbone because of the Anti-Japanese War, he was sent to the Soviet Union for recuperation, and he was treated with a dental disease by the way, so the Soviet Union also kept Lin Biao's dental files.
Because Lin Biao caught fire and exploded immediately after the crash, and the bodies of a woman and eight men were all burned beyond recognition, it was completely impossible to judge whether it was Lin Biao from the face of the corpse, so he had to make this decision.
Through the inspection of the relevant departments of the Soviet Union, it was finally determined that the body was Lin Biao himself.
However, there are still a lot of doubts about the identity of the only female corpse.
Although this female corpse can only be Lin Biao's wife Ye Qun, the strange thing is that after the Mongolian medical experts conducted an autopsy on the female corpse, they found that the female corpse was still very young, not more than 50 years old, and it is unlikely that it is Ye Qun, who is already 50 years old.
Moreover, in the pocket of the female corpse, there was still a half-burned contraceptive pill instruction manual, but Ye Qun had long passed the age of using contraceptive pills, and the two pieces of evidence together seemed to further prove that the identity of the female corpse was not Ye Qun.
However, this is only conjecture, and there is no definite evidence.
What's even more bizarre is that before the plane crashed, Lin Biao's family all took off their shoes and took off the watches they were wearing.
And the mystery of Lin Biao's plane crash is far more than that.
So what's the truth?
Kang Tingzi, who once served as the co-pilot of the No. 256 special plane, slowly told the truth of the year......
The co-captain Kang Tingzi told the truth
Even though Lin Biao has been dead for many years, whenever Kang Tingzi recalls the situation at that time, he still sighs with palpitations:
"Among the pilots who accompanied Lin Biao to his death in Mongolia back then, there should be me. ”
At that time, Kang Tingzi was in the chief plane unit of the Central Guard Bureau, serving as the co-pilot of Lin Biao's No. 256 special plane, so he naturally knew the details of the incident.
In 1969, because we were too short of money at that time, even the leader's airliner was a second-hand product modified from a eliminated airliner, and its performance was quite backward and there were constant failures.
Therefore, for the sake of the personal safety of the leaders, the relevant departments decided to purchase a number of the most advanced and safest aircraft in the world at that time to serve as special planes for the leaders.
The Trident aircraft with excellent performance came into our sight at this time, and its advantage was that the fuel consumption was extremely low, which was simply the best ideal model for us who were short of money and fuel at that time.
But at that time, we only imported four Tridents, and when we remodeled these Tridents, the last one delivered was the No. 265 aircraft that was buried with Lin Biao later.
As soon as the transformation of the No. 265 special plane was completed, it became the special plane of Lin Biao's family, but I never thought that the accident happened less than 50 days after the plane was delivered.
The day before the incident on September 12, 1971, it was a weekend holiday, and Kang Tingzi was not scheduled to have any flight missions on that day, so it was rare to be free.
After dinner, Kang Tingzi went to bed early in the dormitory next to the airport, but he didn't expect that in the middle of the night, a rapid knock on the door woke up Kang Tingzi in his sleep.
I only heard someone outside the door shouting: "The chief has arrived at the airport, get up quickly!"
Kang Tingzi, who was in a daze, hurriedly turned over and got dressed and put on his shoes, and couldn't help muttering in his heart:
Although there have been many emergencies before, the crew will be notified in advance. There has never been a time when the chief has already arrived at the airport and remembered the precedent of waking them up, what is going on?
But just as Kang Tingzi was putting on his shoes, he heard the violent sound of the aircraft engine pneumatic from the tarmac - that sound was very familiar to him, it was the sound of the start of the No. 256 special plane!
Kang Tingzi was even more stunned this time, he didn't even have time to tie his shoelaces and buttons, so he hurriedly picked up his bag and rushed out of the room, but it was too late, and he saw that No. 256 had already begun to slide on the runway.
In the chaos, Unit 8341, who was responsible for guarding Lin Biao at the airport, was clashing with the ground support troops at the airport.
In the arguing procession, some people shouted "Shoot them quickly!" and then someone shouted, "No one is allowed to shoot!"
In the crowd of everyone, I saw Lin Biao being dragged onto the plane again under the support of his wife Ye Qun, son Lin Liguo, and car drivers Yang Zhengang and Liu Peifeng.
Before Kang Tingzi could figure out the situation, he saw that amid the shouts of the people and the roar of the plane, a military jeep suddenly entered the tarmac, and then a young officer with a Shandong accent jumped out of the jeep, anxiously pointed a gun at the No. 256 special plane that was taxiing in the distance, and said to Kang Tingzi:
"Stop the plane! This plane can't take off! You stop it!"
When Kang Tingzi heard this, he immediately pointed to the jeep in a hurry, and asked the officer to drive the car onto the runway and face the plane, and to block his tires, so that it would not dare to take off.
However, it was already too late, and before everyone could react, the 256 special plane flew into the sky and flew away.
Seeing this scene, the crowd at the airport who was originally rioting was all stunned in place, and then the Shanhaiguan Airport tower also began to call repeatedly:
“256号、256号赶紧返航！”
Seeing that no one answered, the tower simply called out the captain's name: "Pan Jingyin! Pan Jingyin! I order you to return immediately!"
However, it turned out unsurprisingly, no one responded.
At this time, Kang Tingzi found out that he was not the only crew member who was left behind by the 265 special plane, in addition to him, there was also a co-captain Chen Lianbing, as well as the navigator, the communicator, and the attendant, all of whom did not catch the plane.
Soon, they were told by the airport personnel to report to their superiors immediately that the plane had fled.
For a while, everyone invariably asked: Why did you run away?
Obviously, things have far exceeded their expectations, Kang Tingzi had imagined before that it was the bad guys who hijacked the plane, but what he never expected was that it was the chief himself who "escaped"!?
The mystery behind it
Out of professional habits, Kang Tingzi reflexively began to calculate that the fuel on this plane was only enough for two hours of flight time, and at the same time, a bad premonition also rose in his heart, that is, how to ensure that the flight could be carried out normally when the crew was not ready?
Sure enough, early the next morning, the remaining five people in the crew who had not slept all night received a notice of being detained and returned to Beijing, and after arriving in Beijing, Kang Tingzi and others were isolated and examined, and were told that they had defected on the 256th, and had crashed in the early morning of the 13th.
Kang Tingzi never thought that although he escaped death and saved his life, he was implicated in such a big case in a blink of an eye.
During the review, Kang Tingzi mainly did two things: one was to prove that he had nothing to do with Lin Biao's defection, and he didn't know about it. The second is to judge whether the captain Pan Jingyin is an accomplice to Lin Biao's defection.
This matter is directly related to the innocence of the two, Kang Tingzi did not dare to be sloppy, he instantly pulled his thoughts back to the day before the incident.
In the evening of the same day, the captain Pan Jingyin did suddenly hold an emergency meeting, asking all the crew to keep Lin Biao's flight operations strictly secret, and to add fuel to 15 tons of air.
Kang Tingzi was very surprised after receiving this order, because he was too familiar with the fuel tank of this plane, and the amount of fuel of 15 tons was enough for him to fly directly from Guangzhou to Beijing, but the Shanhaiguan Airport where they were located was so close to Beijing that there was no need to use 15 tons of fuel at all.
If you look at it this way, it is possible that the destination of this flight mission is not back to Beijing as before, and it is very likely to be somewhere else.
Although he felt that something was wrong, Kang Tingzi didn't want to ask too much, so in order to prevent tomorrow's flight from being delayed for too long, he and two mechanics worked with him to refuel the No. 256 special plane overnight.
As a result, it was embarrassing that they drained the entire airport's fuel reserves, did not add No. 256 to 15 tons of fuel, and finally only added 12.5 tons and were forced to give up.
So later, some people speculated whether it was because of the 2.5 tons of oil that was missing, and only half of the normal oil volume of the Soviet Union flew that Lin Biao's plane crashed in Wenerhan.
However, the fact is that the plane did not run out of fuel and crashed at all.
According to the results of the investigation, the plane, which did not fill up the tank, instead of flying in a straight line for the shortest distance to save the maximum amount of fuel, instead circled in the air and deliberately wasted fuel.
But even so, when the plane crashed, there were at least 2,500 kilograms of oil left in the tank, which caused the wreckage of the plane to ignite a raging fire that burned for a long time.
Knowing that Lin Biao and others took off their shoes and watches before the plane crashed, Kang Tingzi said that this was to prepare for the forced landing of the plane.
But the question is, the plane fuel has not run out yet, so why did they choose to make a forced landing at this time!?
Another set of findings came into view: one of the six pistols in the plane was loaded.
So there is speculation, will it be because of the crew and Lin Biao's family, there was a dispute over the defection, Lin Biao and others insisted on defection, the crew refused to defect, and finally the conflict broke out, forced to land the plane, but unexpectedly during the dive, because the center of gravity was unstable, it finally fell and exploded.
And Kang Tingzi firmly believes that the captain Pan Jingyin did not know about Lin Biao's defection, because he always remembered that when he reported to Pan Jingyin that he had added less than 15 tons of oil, Pan Jingyin said that if it was not enough, forget it.
If Pan Jingyin knew Lin Biao's destination at that time and intended to cooperate with Lin Biao's actions, then he would definitely try his best to fill up the gas no matter what.
Therefore, it is very likely that the captain Pan Jingyin refused to cooperate with Lin Biao's defection after perceiving Lin Biao's defection intentions, and deliberately went around in circles in the sky to consume fuel, which can explain why witnesses saw that the No. 256 special plane had been circling in the sky strangely before it crashed.
However, Lin Biao's son Lin Liguo, as an air force boss, can naturally see that Pan Jingyin is spinning in place, so it is very likely that he will hold a loaded gun and threaten Pan Jingyin to make a forced landing.
In this way, everything naturally makes sense.
It's a pity that these are just conjectures, there is no evidence, and the only black box that can restore the recording of the situation in the cockpit has long been taken away by the Soviet Union and his whereabouts are unknown.
However, the crew, including the captain Pan Jingyin, were later rehabilitated and restored their innocence, which seems to be able to confirm the truth of the year.