A more sanguine version reported the wet start of McCain’s A4 was the real origin of the incident which ignited the Zuni rocket on the F-4 behind him. No doubt McCain’s Dad controlled the contents of the incident report. McCain personally crashed 3 A-4’s during his flying career.
The flight deck camera and plat camera captured the entire sequence of events. The fire was started by the Zuni missile.
The movie that the Navy made about it was a staple of the shipboard and aircraft firefighting classes I attended every two years or so.
McCains plane crashed had nothing to do with the fire on the flight deck
Wow, didn’t know that...I did not scratch any metal in almost 21,000 hours, civilian, military and commercial. Lucky me.
Really? Then how did McCain's destroyed aircraft magically appear on camera footage in the spot shown on a chart determined by the Air Boss before the incident? The ZUNI launch was aft and starboard by a plane angled forward pointed toward McCain and White's planes. McCain was located forward port side and his engine exhaust as well as the plane from the plane it launched from pointed over the side. There was no coverup in that fire. The Navy shows it all raw and unedited. This is a link for the chart. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/CVA-59_fire_aft_deck_plan.png Notice how they are parked?