[Lazamataz]

Yes he can. If he didn’t jump-start his jet engine the guy behind him wouldn’t have had a cookoff.

John McCain has killed more Americans than Viet Cong.

[txhurl]

If he’s not back here already from Europe, Sessions may have a FISA warrant waiting for him at JFK.

[TigersEye]

You too huh?

You can blame McCain for a lot of things but not the fire on the Forrestal. It's absurd to 10th degree.

My promised article concerning McCain and the USS Forrestal(CV-59) Fire

Post by FReeper who was there that day.

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McCain and the Forrestal fire 3:23 Aug. 3, 2008

That is where the Democrat propaganda about the BS "Wet Start" began.

McCain and the Forrestal fire 3:23 Aug. 3, 2008

[cynwoody]

If he didn’t jump-start his jet engine the guy behind him wouldn’t have had a cookoff.

Impossible.

Here is how the airplanes were arranged when the incident took place:

McCain's airplane is labeled #416. Note that it's exhaust, if any, is pointed over the ocean. The plane which fired the Zuni is #110. The rocket hit #405, piloted by LCDR Fred D. White, knocking off a fuel tank and starting a conflagration. McCain scrambled over his plane's nose and jumped off its refueling probe. White also escaped from his plane, but was killed when one of the bombs cooked off.

The Zuni fired when the pilot of #110 switched his plane from external to internal power. The switchover caused a power surge, firing the rocket. Two separate mechanisms to prevent such an accident were bypassed: (1) a safety pin had been blown out by high winds and (2) a "pigtail" connection to the rocket pod, supposed to be plugged in only when the airplane was on the catapult, had been plugged in early in an attempt to speed up the launching process.

[Bob]

That wet-start story is bullshit. Watch the flight deck video on Wikipedia — his plane was parked. Nothing was behind it but ocean. Another plane had a rocket misfire which struck the one next to McCain’s.