Posted on 04/30/2025 7:12:44 PM PDT by xxqqzz
Wrong she gay
Sitting on the flight deck, McCain’s plane was struck by a missile accidentally fired from a different aircraft. IIRC...
I had heard reports that the pilot had attempted 2 previous collisions on the same flight.
Third time was a charm.
Guess those reports were accurate.
That is correct.
An F-Phantom I was across from McCain’s A-4 Skyhawk. Several aircraft being launched for a sortie.
As the Phantom was switched from external power (cart) to internal power a Zuni FFR fired and struck IIRC the center external fuel tank on McCain’s A-4 rupturing it. He could hardly be blamed for escaping the ensuing inferno.
The trained fire crew were all killed when a large bomb went off. Several volunteers tried water instead of fire-suppressing foam. Several more detonations occured and the flight deck was ruptured, pouring flaming fuel into a berthing area.
That’s how I recall it from reading several years ago.
McCain was a Deep State operative but he certainly did not instigate the 1967(?) incident.
She was told to change altitude and direction; and yet she persisted …
She was indoctrinated so I can see her with that kind of "attitude".
An F-4 Phantom II
Accidentally typed over or backspace likely
134 sailors and pilots died as a result.
The Forestal was out of commission for five months...
Yes absolutely tragic
And then there’s James Forrestal...
BINGO!
Murder/suicide .....selfish bitch.
Uh huh,
And when The Donald was critical of McLame he was flamed by libs .
Don't need 'field of view' when that jet is a pulsating sun in the darkness. If she didn't 'see' the jet she wasn't scanning. A crewchief without NVGs on a NVG mission is worst than useless.
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