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Chinese shopping mall selling Mao Zedong's plane
Fri Oct 3, 6:10 AM
By The Associated Press
BEIJING - Mao Zedong's jet is up for sale.
It seems a shopping mall in the southern town of Zhuhai where the late Chinese leader's official plane is on display needs to make room for parking.
However the mall's owner (Zhuhai Ridong Group) declined to disclose the asking price or other details.
The British-made Trident jetliner was retired in 1986 and was sold to the mall's owners in 1999, according to the Chinese newspaper Southern Metropolis Daily.
Southern Metropolis Daily reports Mao's plane was one of three Tridents bought by Beijing in 1969. Mao died in 1976.
Another Trident served as the personal plane of Lin Biao, Mao's heir apparent, who died when it crashed in 1971 in Mongolia after what some accounts say was a failed coup attempt against Mao.
