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To: equaviator

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.


20 posted on 07/16/2015 9:06:27 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

McStain should have washed out of flight school, but since his daddy was a admiral they kept him. IIRC he was shot down on his first mission


28 posted on 07/16/2015 9:19:22 AM PDT by shotgun
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