When the missile launched McCain jumped out and escaped likely to a catwalk on the 03 level. About that time the General Alarm for General Quarters would have been sounded as well. Thus McCain would report to assigned station.
When fires happen on a carrier especially major ones an official investigation follows. That means crew members being questioned by what was N.I.S. at that time. About 30 persons on the Bridge at three separate spaces including flighteck OPs {Air Boss}, navigation bridge {The Captain. navigator, Officer of the Watch, Bosun of the Watch, then on the Flag Bridge the Admiral and his staff all watching. Possibly some signalmen as well. Oh yea there is also Vultures Row where a person could go up on the Island and watch flight ops without the Air Boss screaming get off the deck.
On the flight deck there would be about 50-100 men around or near the planes back aft where this happened as witnesses including plane spotters, AVORD Team, Launch control, the start up crews, likely Plane Captain who does pre-flight inspections for readiness etc. IOW this conspiracy would have to be quite large LOL.
The spotting would in fact be conclusive evidence as the spotting could easilly be verified by eye witnesses and camera footage. In other words McCain could not just say well I'm going first etc.
Footage of the fire before it happened, during the fire, and after, has been seen by hundreds of thousands of sailors and Marines. Gee you'd think one would catch it /sarcasm. So have you seen the footage shown in fire fighting training?
Well obviously you have deck experience.
But experience backing hearsay is not persuasive. And the evidence is not conclusive. Again you reference a diagram and low quality film with confusing angles. I have seen it. It is not clear, it is not a case clincher.
There is no way outside of a civilian court room to prove the causal element of Forrestal. But a preponderance of evidence, both direct and circumstantial points to Ltjg. McCain as a hot head scumbag who thinks he’s entitled to provilege. And Senator NcCain is the same.
Do people in the government lie? Did military officers lie or keep silent about the Mai Lai massacre between 1968 and 1969?
Are those with a view at odds with higher ups in the chain of command told to keep silent or else?
Behghazi whistleblowers? Where are they?
Lois Lerner declaring she did nothing wrong and then taking the 5th, why?
TWA-800 was just an electric malfunction in the fuel tank.
And Ltjg. John McCain was as pure as freshly fallen snow during the Forrestal fire.
I am not buying it.