[CPEO-MEF] AIR SAFETY: "Explosions and Crashes: Military Aircraft Are a Threat to US Civilians"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Explosions and Crashes: Military Aircraft Are a Threat to US Civilians


By Dahr Jamail
Truth out 
April 30, 2018

On April 3, a third military aircraft crashed in just one 24-hour period. That incident happened when a Marine Corps helicopter attempted to land in Djibouti, and occurred shortly after another Marine Corps helicopter crashed nearby the Naval Air Facility El Centro in California, killing four crewmembers. Then, also in that same 24-hour period, a Marine Corps Harrier jet crashed during its takeoff from the Djibouti-Ambouli International Airport.

On April 5, a US Air Force Thunderbird jet crashed at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, killing the pilot. This was the third Thunderbird jet crash in just the last two years, and became the fourth crash of a military aircraft in less than 36 hours.

This January, the US military even had to apologize to Japan over repeated military accidents in that country. Following a protest lodged by Tokyo against Washington over two forced landings by US military helicopters in just a few days' time in Okinawa, US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis was forced to apologize to his Japanese counterpart. Truthout has reported on how residents in Okinawa living near US military bases live in chronic fear of crashing US military aircraft.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/44288-explosions-and-crashes-military-aircraft-are-a-threat-to-us-civilians

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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