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Mongolia doubted fuel shortage theory in Lin Biao plane crash – Kyodo

From Kyodo News: An investigation by Mongolia into the 1971 plane crash that killed Lin Biao, China’s No. 2 leader at the time, concluded that the cause was unlikely to have been a lack of fuel as China says, records obtained by Kyodo News show. Meanwhile, a Mongolian source knowledgeable about the investigation told Kyodo that the team of investigators had concluded that a struggle had probably taken place on board as Lin tried to flee to the Soviet Union after the failure