McCain a crappy pilot? Why would you say that? Because the Vietnamese shot him down with a SAM?
I googled it. Best not to be around him when he is flying.
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/09/mccains-plane-crashes
McCain did lose two Navy aircraft while piloting them.
One crash was found to be be McCain’s fault, the other due to an engine failure of undetermined cause..
A third was destroyed on the deck of the carrier USS Forrestal when a missile fired accidentally from another plane hit either the plane next to McCain’s or, less likely, his own aircraft, triggering a disastrous fire that killed 134 sailors and nearly killed McCain.
A fourth plane was lost when he was shot down over North Vietnam on a bombing mission over Hanoi.
A fifth alleged “crash” turns out to be a misinterpretation of a flight accident that did not result in the loss of the aircraft. McCain admitted to causing that incident through “daredevil clowning” but returned safely.
McCain was known by his peers as a crappy pilot. He was carried through flight school until he passed because he was a ‘legacy’; his father and grandfather were admirals and aviators. He also crashed 4 or 5 aircraft in non-combat situations before he was shot down. He had an earned reputation before ever being shot down.
McCain crashed a jet while he was in advanced flight training at Corpus Christi, Texas. he tried to blame engine failure but a Navy investigation blamed McCain’s inattention to altitude.
His daddy kept him in planes though and he would later take out power in Spain while being a complete jackass.
Also my own dad said never to trust this daddies boy on anything said about the Forrestal incident.
Put to point, McCain was terrible pilot who had a daddy that kept him in expensive tax payer funded planes. Now he has suckers who vote for him, that keep him in expensive tax payer funded planes.