[Will88]

Quite a detailed summary of the events you presented.

There are several videos about a wet start on youtube that show up by searching “Forrestal fire” in the youtube search box.

Yeah, the only thing questionable about McCain’s actions at the start of the fire in this scenario is whether the missile knocked bombs off his plane, or whether he accidentally hit controls to detach them while escaping.

And then there are more questions about what he did after getting away from the fire, and his R&R to Saigon and transfer from the Forrestal and whether he got preferred consideration being the son of an admiral.

[TigersEye]

That wasn't my account. I pulled it from the thread I linked to in #8.

Here is a good account of what McCain did and didn't do, backed up by FOIAed Navy records.

The Forrestal Disaster, July 29, 1967

It accords completely with the official accounts from the Navy investigation. The documentary I linked to is a good one. Covers the whole investigation.

[TigersEye]

Here is a pretty good account about "wet starts" in general posted by FReeper rlmorel.

Sorry to drag you into this, rlmorel. No reply necessary.

[Sontagged]

My only comment is the supposed photo of McCain floating after ejection (and that he was hotdogging too low was also an allegation against him)

the photo is OBVIOUSLY a mock up, a true cut and paste job.

There are missing heads that fade into shadow, arms and hands coming out of nowhere, a black paddle handle evidently piercing someone's hand... and that is not McCain's hand being held by someone... who's arm and hand is that?

Why was this fake photo made up? Methinks Jeremiah Denton and those who weren't part of Rove/Steve Schmidt's Swift Boat Veterans for Truth knew the truth about John McCain.

As did Ronald Reagan.