[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Fatima! Glad you are doing better! For comparison early picture of J McCain: (Twitter Picture of Top Gun actor Tom Cruise and J McCain together??) May help to make up your mind.

Deeper dig; This is type of plane he flew.

His squadron was assigned to this aircraft carrier (the Forrestal). A picture of its flight deck after some Hotshot "Wet Started" his A4 Skyhawk and set off a zuni missle on the plane behind him which launched and exploded causing all sorts of fuel to go everywhere and ignite as well as knocking off some stale dated 1935 1000 lb bombs on an A-4. LtCmndr. McCain was present during this piece of history.

De mortuis nil nisi bona etc.

[reed13k]

There were a fair number of people who claim he was to blame and that during the firefighting he basically went and hid

[fatima]

Thanks Pete.

[Yulee]

A picture of its flight deck after some Hotshot “Wet Started” his A4 Skyhawk and set off a zuni missle on the plane behind him which launched and exploded causing all sorts of fuel to go everywhere and ignite as well as knocking off some stale dated 1935 1000 lb bombs on an A-4. LtCmndr. McCain was present during this piece of history.
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One of my high school classmates died in the explosion.