 Since the start of 2025, a total of 85 people have died in major U.S. aviation incidents.
On January 29, American Airlines Flight 5342 collided with a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter above the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. All 64 people on board the CRJ700 and 3 on board the helicopter were killed. The Black Hawk helicopter, is made by Sikorsky, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, has been sold to governments of Saudi Arabia, "Israel", Philippines, Colombia, Mexico, Afghanistan, Republic of Korea, Taiwan and others. This infamous attack helicopter model has been used by US-backed militaries around the world to bomb entire neighborhoods, strafe whole countrysides with bullets, and land soldiers into villages to abduct and terrorize civilians under the guise of the "war on terror". February 12th, a Boeing fighter jet crashed into the San Diego Harbor. The EA 18G Growler is a Boeing "carrier-based electronic warfare aircraft". It has been used in the Operation Odyssey Dawn enforcing the UN no-fly zone over Lybia, deployed from Iraq in 2011. It was deployed as part of the Operation Prosperity Guardian attacking the Yemeni people and downing a Ansar Allah drone. February 6th, a US-Department of Defense-contracted surveillance plane crashed in Philippines, killing four people, including a US military personnel. The plane was a Beechcraft King Air 350, owned by Textron Aviation and formerly by Raytheon. The surveillance operation, which happened not far from the site of the notorious 2009 Maguindanao Massacre, is yet another event which raises serious concerns about the devastating impacts of the United States role in “counter-terror” and counterinsurgency operations in the Philippines. The recent plane crashes in San Diego, the Potomac River, and the Philippines serve as reminders of the deep-rooted imperialist system that prioritizes military interests over human lives. These crashes are not mere accidents but the dangerous consequences of unchecked of militarization and global dominance, where the lives of ordinary people are expendable to further the aims of the military-industrial complex. The military’s disregard for safety standards in its operations—whether during training exercises, military drills, or even maintenance— are just a small part of the overall death and destruction intentionally meted out by the US military through its wars of aggression all around the world. The people affected by these crashes and the people around the world on the receiving end of the bombs, strafing, surveillance, counterinsurgency programs, military exercises and proxy wars are the true front line victims of US wars of aggression. While the loss of lives by these military "accidents" are tragic, the US military has intentionally killed more than 4.5 million people in its wars since the start of the US-War on Terror, and millions more before, using weapons jets and military equipment such as the ones involved in the crashes. Weapons transnational corporations, headed by the richest class of monopoly capitalists in the world, sacrifice the lives of people around the world every single day for the sake of raking in superprofits. We must escalate further our campaigns against the Weapons TNC's and the governments who contract them to fight to end wars of aggression and build just peace.
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