re: Does everyone know McCain crashed 5 military aircraft?

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Well, the rocket hit McCain's plane, so probably not McCain.

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Fire

While preparing for the second sortie of the day, the aft portion of the flight deck was packed wing-to-wing with 12 A-4E Skyhawk, seven F-4B Phantom II, and two Vigilante aircraft. A total of 27 aircraft were on deck, fully loaded with bombs, rockets, ammunition, and fuel. Several tons of bombs were stored on wooden pallets on deck in the bomb farm.[15] A McDonnell Douglas F-4B Phantom (No. 110, BuNo 153061), flown by LCDR James E. Bangert and LT(JG) Lawrence E. McKay from VF-11,[1] was positioned on the aft starboard corner of the deck, pointing about 45 degrees across the ship.[1] It was armed with LAU-10 underwing rocket pods, each containing four unguided 5.0 in (127.0 mm) Mk-32 "Zuni" rockets. The Zuni was protected from launching by a safety pin that was only to be removed prior to launch from the catapult.[10][6]:57

Zuni rocket launched

At about 10:51 (local time) on 29 July, an electrical power surge in the Phantom occurred during the switch from external to internal power. The electrical surge caused one of the four 5-inch Mk-32 Zuni unguided rockets in a pod on external stores station 2 (port inboard station) to fire.[12] The rocket was later determined to be missing the rocket safety pin, allowing the rocket to launch.[10] The rocket flew about 100 feet (30 m) across the flight deck, likely severing the arm of a crewman, and ruptured a 400 US gallons (1,500 l; 330 imp gal) wing-mounted external fuel tank on a Skyhawk from VA-46 awaiting launch.[1][16][6]:34, 93

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McCain Lost Five Military Aircraft

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BTW, what is your source? You didn't link one.

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McCain and the Forrestal depends who you ask.

McCain claimed, and his father made damn sure the navy accepted this claim as the official record, that his fighter got hit by a rocket and dropped the bombs on the deck.

direct eye witnesses to the incident claim, and the video did not support that argument, and that the bombs dropped because he had a hissy fit waiting in line to take off and got out of his plane, accidentally dropping his payload in the process and setting off the fuel spilled by the misfired rocket.

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