[MCF]

McCain did not start it . An A-4, near him, was struck by a Zuni missle launched by another aircraft.

[equaviator]

“McCain did not start it. An A-4, near him, was struck by a Zuni missile launched by another aircraft”

#TechnicalCorrectnessMatters

[philman_36]

An accident report can say anything...scuttlebutt is often more reliable.

[oldvirginian]

One of my cousins married a pilot who was on the flight deck when it happened.
In his home office he has pictures of some of the pilots, John Rotten is in one with him.

Seeing the pictures I asked him about it.
He agreed that McCain had nothing to do with the accident, that a missile started the whole thing.

His comments on McCain were that he was a terrible pilot whom everyone on the ship hated because he was an ass whose ego was bigger than the ship.

[silverleaf]

McCain has never admitted that the missile struck another aircraft
In his telling its always his airplane
Why is that?

Because he has never admitted that a bomb dropped from his aircraft as he scrambled out ( uninjured) started a ctastrophic chain of events that killed his ground crew and the pilot and ground crew of the aircraft that was struck

CDR Fred White - who had exited his aircraft and started to escape
You wont find any mention of him in McCains memoirs or speeches even though he and his men died on the deck next to McCain

[moehoward]

” An A-4, near him, was struck by a Zuni missle launched by another aircraft.”

At Navy Airman school we were told exhaust from an APU caused that launch.