[Oztrich Boy]

But let's not drag up that old story of him wet-starting his plane as a practical joke on the guy behind him ... which cooked off the guy behind's Zuni rockets, which punctured John's fuel tanks, causing him to dump his bomb ordinance into the fire and scamper away across the tightly packed planes to safety (on film). because it's total bunk.

McCain is in 416, facing inward, no guy behind him. 405 was hit by a missile fired by an electrical fault in Phantom 110 on the other side of the Flight deck

[Kenny Bunk]

That’s impressive! Not too sure that it’s true, though

Gentlemen that's exactly why I said

But let's not drag up that old story of him wet-starting his plane as a practical joke on the guy behind him ....

and uh .... sorry (if that's true .. we'll review the films.) Got it from ...among others ... my EX-Bro-in-law, who was aboard that day and has been quite useless ever since. However, that MacCain's "career" in the military was a little out of the ordinary is quite true.