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Those aircrashes - an interesting theory

The Week Vol. 5, No. 11, 17 March 1966 · p. 9 of the scan · 247 words

The scan: The Week v5 no11.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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We are reprinting the following extract from the Japanese Communist Party paper, Akaharta, because we think these facts are interesting , and offera serious theory as to why*there have been so many fatal aircrashes. "The root cause of the recent successive air crashes in Japan is that the Japanese cannot use freely their own airspace. Taking advantage of tne Japan-U.S. "Security Treaty", the U.S. has mmopolised many excellent airports in Japan and designated ‘special airspace’ for exclusive use by U.S. forces, causing congestion of civil airlines and frequent accidents," The 'Akaharta! article pointed out that Japanese air communication authorities. have no right over the U.S. special airspace. Such airspace is called an “air bulwark" by the U.S. forces... Civil airlines from Tokyo to Osake cannot take a direct route, but must make a detour of the "air bulwark" in Kanto, Chubu and Hokuriku areas. Thus all civil airplanes can only enter the Haneda Airport in Tokyo from the east side, ~ At the same time, the U.S. forces in Japan and the Japanese 'self-defence forces! are monopolising a great number of airports with good conditions, For instance, the Yokoda base used by the U.S. forces is seven times as big as the Haneda Airport, With the escalation of the U.S.war in Vietnam, the U.S. has chartered great numbers of transports of U.S. civil airlines and has shipped weapons, ammunitions and tronps to South Vietnam through Japan, resulting’in a rapid increase in the traffic > at Haneda Airport."

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