An Unfortunate Accident or a Daring Escape?
The disappearance of Ian Mackintosh
4 min readJun 22, 2020
A plane disappeared near Kodiak Island on the evening of July 7th, 1979. Did it crash, or did the passengers fake the wreck so they could escape? Ian Mackintosh, one of the passengers, was a former British Royal Navy officer and probably an ex-spy for Britain during the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
