He certainly did not start the fire (an errant missile did), but when he dropped his bombs into the flames in a panic it made things much worse.
Those bombs did not come from McCain’s plane, they came from the plane next to him that was hit. Regardless of the falsity, on the wing or on the flight deck, those bombs were going to cook off anyway. They had nearly ten of those thousand pound bombs cook off in the inferno.
A lot of people have a lot to say about that fire, and much of it is stuff they read on the Internet.
I know more about it because I have had a connection to the squadron and McCain himself.
Trust me. What you wrote isn’t true. Not attacking you, and especially not defending McCain...but I want our criticisms of him not to be dismissed out of hand, which the spreading of provable falsehoods makes it easier to do.