19311109 at 8 o'clock in the morning, Xu Zhimo went north from Nanjing by the China Airlines "Jinan" postal plane. He was going to attend a lecture on China architecture art held by Lin for foreign envoys in Peking Union Medical College Auditorium that night. When the plane arrived at Dangjiazhuang area in the south of Jinan, it was suddenly foggy and it was difficult to tell the course. In order to find an accurate route, the pilot had to lower the flight altitude. Unexpectedly, the plane crashed into the mountain (now Guyunhu Sub-district Office, Changqing District, Jinan City) and immediately fell into the valley. The fuselage caught fire and all the people on board were killed (two pilots and Xu Zhimo).
In addition to the direct cause of Lin, his death was also related to Lu Xiaoman's delay in agreeing to go north, the influence of heavy fog, the host engineer Wang's busy preparing his daughter's marriage late the night before and his poor spirit during the flight.
Cai Yuanpei wrote an elegy for him: speech is poetry, action is poetry, and lifelong behavior is poetry. The meaning of poetry has penetrated, and it has its own paradise; You can die by boat, by car, lying in a cubicle, and you don't have to be afraid of the road if you die accidentally.