McCain, when a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy was a Navy pilot (they call themselves aviators). July 29, 1967 while on the deck and in his plane on the carrier U.S.S. Forrestal he managed to screw up procedures (officially denied and covered up by him and the Navy and also even promoted on Wikipedia if you care to look–reason to follow). He did a smart ass punk attention getting trick by doing a “wet start” up of his jet.
When a pilot wants to be a wise ass or show off, this type of engine start creates a large startling flame and lots of surprise noise from the rear of a jet engine on start up–this was no accident. This and the large subsequent electrical surge and apparent (incorrect and against policy) weapon arming (by the pilot) caused the launching of a powerful Zuni rocket across the carrier’s deck hitting other parked planes (photo below) that were packing 1,000 high-explosive pound bombs. The subsequent massive explosions, fire and destruction went several decks below and nearly sunk this major 82,000 ton U.S. aircraft carrier.
This stunt and aftermath caused the death of 134 sailors and seriously injure (blow off arms legs, cause blindness and burns to another 161 sailors) and took the ship off the battle line for extensive repairs. Any other Navy pilot causing this type of death and destruction the Navy would have raped him and he would probably still be in the brig. Why not McCain? Well, first with many powerful connections this “little infraction” was covered up by the Navy (our most politically involved/connected service by the way).
You see his grandfather was a famous FOUR STAR Navy admiral and his dad was at the time of the incident was a powerful Navy FOUR STAR admiral and McCain graduated from the Navy Academy. So the old boy Navy tradition cover his ass network went into high gear immediately; and make no mistake, it does exist and it did for him.
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He is definitely a prisoner of the new world order. Taking his orders from the rothchilds.
Get the right picture fuck heads and stop spreading slanderous bullshit! God I hate fake news! I hate the people that write it even more. Fucking scumbags.
Guess we are going from fake news to fake history…..whole lot of fail here.
REALLY? Maybe you’ve never met the victims of this and clearly you aren’t related to anyone who died in this.
Just another democrat trying to protect the traitor McCain
URrrrr R I G H T MAN !!!!! ???????? THAT F—— S O N G B I R D !!!! HE GOT P A R D E N E D BY NIXSON !!!!!!!!!!
YOU don’t get pardons for good behavior. Those who knew him knew he was a fuck-up of the highest order.
The only reason he ever rose above a slug was because his father was an Admiral in the Navy.
It is no crime to be the son of an admiral, but it is a crime to have 134 killed and another 161 wounded, and your part of this covered up. He was a righteous fool. Blamed Sarah Palin for his loss of the nomination for President, after singing high praises of her. He was an inconsistent thorn in the side of Republicans, and should NOT have messed with our POTUS!!!
Tearing apart healthcare and turning on our President while allowing the people of the US to be pawns in HIS game, he was a probable mental fallible case that should have never come this far.
I will not miss him.
Too bad the basic facts can’t support your story.
The F-4 that launched the rocket could not see McCain’s tail, so the pilot could not have seen his A-4’s exhaust because there was another A-4 between him and the F-4
Why don’t you find the reporter that was on the ship at the time? He saw him run to the ready room and watch the scene on TV then run to get his bag. He came back out and asked for a lift as the reporter was leaving. When asked why he wanted to leave he said “I need some R & R” and left the ship with the reporter and his story. At least that’s what the reporter said.
Is this true?
It’s very true. It you don’t look at government sources that have been covering up McCain’s mishaps throughout his life, due to his father, who was an admiral, you will see it is very true. McCain was known for stunts like this. Do your own research. But I don’t recommend Snopes or easily-changed Wikipedia. Go father. There are many references here, but do your own research
I also suggest you look into the “USS Liberty” and it’s bombing by Israel, which McCain’s father also covered up. The sailors that survived were threatened at the time by McCain’s admiral dad, but the sailors are now speaking out .
The Internet has give you an avenue to do your own research and to not be beholding to the mainstream media which has manipulated what you’ve heard all your life – their version. It’s your quest.
This book has the truth, with interviews of dozens of Forrestal survivors. The story above is 100% fake and used against McCain in his bid for president. You sir, have been duped!
Written by an Associated Press writer? I suggest you look up Operation Mockingbird, which has never ended.
This story was out before his bid for presidency
was to be next inline since losing to GW in the 2000 primary= EVERYBODY knows this.
Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin was the only real hope he had and his team muzzled her from the word go…
You sir, are stupid. I had a friend on that ship.
AMAZON??? lol
We all do know he voted against his own party and cost American taxpayer to continue paying large premiums for insurance so the people getting insurance free could continue to do so! If you vote against your own party, in my mind, you are a traitor. I am praying his wife or daughter do not get appointed to replace him. For the people who not believe , Google, Did Senator John McCain wreck an airplane when he was flying off a navy ship? It is all there.
he was a killary and onigger puppet
Welll “Anony-mouse”- both were Progressive Statist Globalist’s who studied under Alinsky[Marxist)…
His 1/2 ancestry had nothing to do with his MO – please do refrain from ignorant labling by racial slurs.
they blew whistle and are telling truth about this traitor
And the proof of this is where?
Don’t forget his cover-up on the fate of Vietnam POWs left behind either!!!
No, it is not.
NO!
i don’t buy that bullshit
Some very good BULL SH!T you posted.
That is some very fine snark. I love the comparison to how Trump reacted to the insurrection on 6 Jan. Watched it on his TV… hilarious.
Hey dumbass it was McCain’s plane that launched the missile
smh, hey ‘dumbass’, McCain’s plane was NOT the plane that launched the missle. He was in an A4, the Zuni was launched by an F4, and HIT McCain’s plane. Try to get it right.
go to YouTube look up interviews, they all say the same thing, the missile did not start the fire, the wet start fire covered the area THEN the bombs started going off
WRONG.
I actually know someone on board the Forestal when this happened and McCain was NOT responsible for this disaster!
Amused…And what do you think caused that moron…it was McCain’s wet starting his plane showing off that triggered the A4 resulting in the plane’s pilot being killed, while McCain ran to
safety.
Sorry but you are wrong. The F-4 was on the other side of the flight deck. In its parking spot.
I am glad that HE is out of DC. GLAD got it!
John was a good man but was also silver spoon fed and got what he gained in life from connections rather than ability. God bless him @ his loved ones, but he will not be missed in the Senate. He was a grand stander arrogant as well as ignorant too. Gone but not missed
A “good man”? A man that left the crippled wife and mother of his 3 children for a younger woman that just happened to be the heiress to a beer brewery fortune? Good man? ???
POS
Adios “Johnny wetstart”
no it’s adios john mccain total retard moron and traitor
We don’t say his name. He was worse than anyone could possibly know.
“heiress to a beer brewery fortune” I read several times in the 1990s McCain’s Family was given exclusive (monopoly) rights to sell USA beer in Communist Vietnam. This after lying about POWs left in Vietnam after the war.
His worsst sin beside dumping his crippled wife was to aid traitor John Fn Kerry in covering up the 600+ POW’s left to rot in Vietnam long after the war = EVIL TO THE BONE
i heard that one and do believe he was a real asshole
A good man doesn’t run arms shipments bought and paid for with US tax dollars to half-assed Arab insurgents who are little more than poorly trained Israeli proxies.
Assad was supposedly building a uranium processing plant with North Korean help and the Jews wiped it off the map with a surgical strike using US intelligence assets. Since then we’ve been using SF and CIA assets like the Kurds to destabilize Syria while using ISIS as a cover, bailing out Israel.
The truth of the matter is McCain was neck-deep in regime change politics within Syria and the MIC Cold War games have been a dangerous, misguided effort to intimidate Russia, who is still seen as a threat because they won’t truly bend to the NWO money system in store for the rest of us.
Fuck McCain and the rest of his NWO friends.
Except that didn’t actually happen. And Senators don’t owe a duty of loyalty to the President. It’s a co-equal branch. McCain is an American hero who served this country proudly. Can’t say the same for Trump.
Come on now pogden, you don’t really believe that do you? Surely not! If so I suggest you do some research, and not from websites like snopes.com or Wikipedia!
Yep, the article is 100% fake:
Written by a former Associated Press reporter. I suggest you research Operation Mockingbird, which never ended.
All of a sudden, this fake news is trending and every liberal lunatic is navigating to it. Please get a clue. Think for yourself for once.
Haha! The guy who wrote that piece of ‘narrative non-fiction’ is a contributor to ‘The National Compass’ that publishes stories titled articles like:
The United States is Backsliding Towards Autocracy and Taking the World With Her – March 9, 2019
Mueller Report Results In Premature Exoneration For Trump Mouthpieces – March 23, 2019
President Trump Just Showed America Why He Is Unfit to be President – March 24, 2019
Intelligence Operations are Designed to be Impossible to Prove: Why the Mueller Report Failed to Find Collusion – March 30, 2019
Trump’s Wall Emergency is Just Another Example of How He Uses the Powers of the Presidency to Protect Himself – Feb 17, 2019
and on and on and on….
It is a FAR LEFT site filled with anti-US, anti-Trump zealots, of which the author of your book is a part.
This article is the gift that keeps giving.
Here is a fact that should not be in dispute.
McCain was a war mongering whore who gave real who-eres a bad name..
Thanks for playing SMH!
he sucked
Because snopes and Wikipedia are real sites and we can’t have that can we you stupid clueless mouth breathing fucks? Find some other fantasy to blame for your useless failed lives.
“Useless failed lives” = DemocRats/bureaucRats- esp Clintons + Obama who never had a real job or business in their lives any more than Mule-r or Come-y = all lying parasitic rats feeding off real Americans that actually work for a living= not live a lie for a living and get paid for it…
i was onboard the firestast cva-59 at the time. i have personal knowledge of the event. however, i will be the info to myself.
You’re exactly right, the missile was launched from an F-4 Phantom that experienced an electrical surge when switching from external to interal power. The missile hit one or two A-4 Skyhawks, one of which was piloted by John McCain. The external fuel tank(s) ruptured, causing jet fuel to spill out onto the flight deck, and was ignited by the missiles’ burning rocket fuel. John McCain had to open his canopy, unbuckle his harness and dissconnect his oxygen and microphone lines, get out of a burning airplane, and crawl through flames to get away. He suffered many burns and was hospitalized, before voluntarily returning to duty.
As for Trump, he was a draft dodger who paid off a doctor to write a medical report saying he had a spur on one of his feet, so was medically unfit for military service. Fucking draft dodging coward. He critisized McCain and said he was not a hero while sucking up to Vladimar Putin and saying Kim Jung Un is a really nice guy. Stupid fucking coward; the Russian investigation is NOT GOING AWAY EITHER.
McCain was a bitter vindictive , lying hypocrite and asshole. If that’s what you admire then you’re probably a piece of shit too. After 8 years of lies and incompetence with obama , it’s nice to have a president who actually is doing things to improve our economy and country. Despite the unhinged attacks by these hate filled leftists and democrats who call everyone they disagree with a racist or a fascist he has managed to do more than obama did his entire presidency. And the Russian “investigation “ is complete bullshit being pushed by dumb fucking idiots like yourself.
Amen
Clueless fuck…
I’m a 40 year republican and you are an embarrassment.
Right – like McPain was a lifelong RINO = DEM-LITE = useless “go alongs to get alongs”.
The true Repub base are Conservative Constitutionalist’s.
Both “Party’$” are privately owned clubs run by owners outside the Parties who are Globalists…
Hey anonamous, I didn’t recall you calling Bill Clinton a, gee, (how did you put it?) “A fucking draft dodging coward.” Surely your wonderwoman Hillary wouldn’t marry someone like that!
Sorry but the Russian witch hunt is OVER!! AND McShame is DEAD!!!! Good day!!!
Who was piloting the F4? If no pilot, how did it switch from external to internal power? Why did that plane not have the pin(s) on the missiles that all the other ones had? If there are records/accounts of McCain getting into his plane, are there also records/accounts of the F4 pilot getting into his plane? If not, why not?
Look at the facts….the pin was in the Zuni, it didn’t go off, it ruptured fuel tanks which started the fire.
No wonder you keep the name anonymous. I’d be too if I supplied false and fake facts to people. Did you see the doctor get paid off by Trump ? No you just made it up because you’re another fucking far Left Trump hater who’s ass is still sore that Hillery lost the election. He did more good for this Country in 18 months than the last three guys did in 24 years ! The reason this Country is so screwed up is because of lamebrains like you who support this resistance. Look the facts up bud, and see he was rejected for the bone spurs, not for paying off someone. I know many famous people who refused to serve, like Muhammad Ali, ( Cassius Clay ) and got away with it openly. I read about that aircraft disaster story long before any Presidential runs or taking his place in the senate, BUT the backlash is to protect this traitor. The song bird had special treatment, while giving info on our POW’s to save him from displeasure but the main stream media reports this coward as being a hero. Go to your local AMVETS or VFW and Legions, talk to those guys. Ask a Vietnam Vet all about this worm. All I had to do is watch LIVE, the night this ignorant asshole voted thumbs down on that shit plan Obama Care because he hated Trump. Another GOOD deed for our nation, but guys like you are still fucking blind even when it’s seen right in front of their own eyes ! You’re too much into being a Trump hater than supporting THIS COUNTRY just like the SONGBIRD WAS , and hearing what his daughter puked out of her mouth at his funeral, she’s just like YOU worried on focusing on OUR PRESIDENT than respecting her own Dad !
I am one of those guys (vet). You are fools supporting a Putin loving traitor….nothing patriotic about you.
You got nothing with Putin / Trump cause their ain’t nothin.
But there is with Uranium One w/Mueller/Hilliaty+Bill Clinton along with Comey’s FBI cover up and for fake FISA court sting via Steele that was paid for by Hilliary and the 33k-FBI illegal treasonous emails she sold as Sec of State parasite which Big O was fully on board with…
I’ll second that….drives you crazy doesn’t you blithering idiots. You are all a waste of oxygen.
Whoops- you forgot the whole was started by McCains “wet launch” hotshot bs to show off = GUILTY .
And he did cover up as did lying John “the Lurch” Kerry[another goldigger creep] the 600+POW’s left to rot in Vietnam after the thing was over= SUPER DIRTBAG’s.
Both opportunististic obstructionist who played all sides for their own perceived benefit.
You can thank FDR+Harry Truman(D) who got us into Vietnam to play war games same as w/N.Korean mess = not win but suck up to FDR+HT ‘s U.N. orders “to give Communism a chance”.
Right and 200-million people have been murdered by them in a 100yrs and counting.
The only 2 things in recent history McCain did right was to push the “SURGE” + bring Sarah Palin into the national spotlight while Obozo+Hilliar-y corrupted all they touched their entire lives.
You’re WRONG.
I actually know someone on board the Forestal when this happened and McCain was NOT responsible for this disaster!
You told it like it is.
The Russian Investigation has gone away it’s with your Momma FOOL!!
Donald Trump was deferred from the service because of his feet, as many were. Clinton and Obama didn’t serve because it was their choice.
Obama didn’t serve because he was born in 1961
He could have served in the Kenyan Army. They let them in at 11.
Obama could have served once he reached legal age — by enlisting.
Obama served and is still serving as a general for the radical Islamic terrorists.
Obama was born in 1961 so would have been in grade school instead of basic training for Viet Nam.
Obama was too young for Vietnam and too old for both Desert Storm and OEF/OIF. What difference does it make that he never served?
“What difference does it make?” Is that you Hillary?
Well I might add “what difference does it make that Trump didn’t serve”???
That is true. My brother was rejected from serving during the Vietnam War because he had flat feet. He had no trouble walking or hiking because he always did that, but they still would not take him in the Army.
Mc Cain was an incompetent joke, whether the above story is true or not.
He came last at his Military college, crashed numerous planes, I believe 3 or 4.
He was involved in the Keating scandal of the 80’s
He was a disaster in the Middle East, he was one of the center players in the Iraq fiasco and the whole destabilization of the Middle East from Libya to Syria.
An especially dull individual who continued to REPEAT the SAME mistakes. And double down on failed policy.
An idiot who along with others cost America trillions for nothing, in bed with the military industrial complex…there was no war he did not want….and he helped destroyed Europe. Why because Europe is now being flooded by Refugees because of idiots like him making a big mess and destroying the balance of power in the whole region.
And that is just the tip of the iceberg. And tell me how did a senator amass 200 million dollars in net worth…on the salary of a senator?
Another symbol of the corruption of the deep state.
With “heroes” like him…America does not need enemies.
It’s his wife’s money
President Trump is serving America proudly you wingnut and has provided paychecks to Am÷ricans by the $100’$ of millions a year for 50yrs= McCain…? = paychecks to himelf from us + his wife…he was a lying parasite RINO right to the end and Trump refused to go along with the lies- same as w/dirtbag “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal.
Just ask any real combat vet about liars + hotshot show offs that kill our men by “friendlyfire stupidity.
Lest we forget, McCain castigated Palin and his entire campaign staff for using Obama’s middle name, Hussain. Wonder why? Was McCain just a prop to get Obama elected?
Obama – Left Wing Liberal Democratic Washington’s version of “Affirmative Action.”
Yup.. Thats why the Republicans tossed Ron Paul under the boss. They knew he would win. You havnt seen a movement like his sense and you will probably never see it again. The only reason Trump won was because the stay out of it Ron Paulers did not want Hillary.
Wrong… the only reason President Trump won was people like me VOTED for him, and he beat her… that’s all…… case closed ! PERIOD !
YouTube video “John McCain Tokyo Rose Recording” Deep State had this in their pocket. Explaining why they had control of him. John Roberts has something in his past also, which explains his behavior on ACA.
This article is 100% fake.
Written by a former Associated Press reporter. I suggest you research Operation Mockingbird, which never ended.
Join the discussion…man, I m with you, he is fucking moron, why those in the white house senators are so blind, I told people , just what McCain has done for USA, he caused many deaths billions dollars to report the air carrier..we should put this John in prison for life, fucking covered up this shit.
Agree, liberals love McShame because he hated Trump and the feeling was mutual. I am so glad that “dog and pony show” known as his funeral is OVER. It was sickening. JFK didn’t have get such a big show and he was murdered for God’s sake.
Amen.
all were jealous of sarah palin who would have made the best first female vice president of all time
I actually agree with you on this one. She probably would have… but instead we got Obummer. History also states he was our first black president which is another fake fact. This Country has never seen a black president, but Obama came close. He was half black and HALF white ! you can give him credit (as he just spoke LIVE in Kenya on this ) for being the first sitting president ever, coming from Kenya.. in his own words, and I saw it many times.
Fake news
I’m guessing you missed the part where the ACA was a knockoff of the Heritage Foundation’s health care plan crafted in the 90s.
And you are a dumb a$$ idiot. McCain had nothing to do with it.
It is also a crime to tell a lie. McCain had nothing to do with it.
USS Saratoga CVA 60 1968-1972
That, combined with POW status, guaranteed he never had to do another thing, except marry a rich girl.
He graduated second to last in his class at the academy and shot straight to the top Not suspicious at all And no one is even mentioning all the treasonous activity since then. The gates of hell swung right open for him
Bet it’s hotter down there, then on that aircraft Carrier he started the fire on being a no good smart ass scoundrel !
He butt-fuked the dumbass voters of the great state of Arizona for decades. He ran as a Rep. but was a true DemoFag.
and his father was a rear admiral and grandfather was full admiral
Indeed he was. 3 Naval jets lost, due to his ineptness, and so many killed and injured because of him. Makes me ill.
NO, I have the complete listing of Nixon’s presidential pardons (readily available from the Nixon Presidential Library). Neither McCain’s name nor the name of ANY POW from Vietnam is listed. Futhermore, in 1967 the DoD issued a directive that no POW would be charged for any “propaganda” statements made while a POW. Only a fellow POW could charge a POW with aiding the enemy. Jim Stockdale charged 2 fellow officers (one Marine, one Navy ) with aiding the enemy. Neither officer was John McCain. Looks like you folks can’t tell the difference between fecal matter and shoe polish. The only FACTS in this POS are the follwing: The USS Forrestal was a U.S. aircraft carrier that suffered a serious fire on 29 July, 1967. 2) John McCain was an A4E pilot on Forrestal. The Forrestal’s displacement was 59,000 tons, not 82,000 tons. Futher more, “wet starting” (properly reference is a “hot start”) is something NOT to be done since it “spikes” the ITT (inter turbine temperature) and the TOT (turbine outlet temperature). NOT a GOOD THING. It doesn’t go “bang”; it just shoots out a flame (usually bright blue). I am highly doubtful that this “wet start” could be performed on a turbine engine with a motive flow valve unless the starter did not “spin” the engine to the proper N1 speed for ignition.
I just checked that list.. and McCain is at the top.
I can’t wait to see your link to that. The Justice Department disagrees with you.
https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-richard-nixon-1969-1974
Who cares, he was still a traitor
Who in the world would trust the records of the DOJ?!?!? OR DOD?!?! OR FBI?! OR CIA?!
Ijits. I spent some long hours proofing and correcting records after an accidental shootdown of a UN helicopter. And you know what? The ranking officer on board was never mentioned. He eventually became someone.
I was in the Navy. My experience says don’t trust/believe anything the government says. I lived thro my experience , kept my mouth shut along with my mates -as we were told. At least I did not get transferred/shipped to Dong Ha.
Must be a fake list, any true list would be alphabetical.
McAain is not on the list, you liar. https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-richard-nixon-1969-1974
John McCain correct the Spelling❗️??
You are an idiot … his name is nowhere on the list
DUDE SHUT THE HELL UP — YOU GO AND READ A STORY AND COME BACK SPOUTING OFF SHIT AS IF YOU’RE BORN WITH THE KNOWLEDGE….. YOU LIBTURDS ARE SO STUPID….. OF COURSE THERE ARE STORIES ANYONE CAN FIND THAT WILL CALL IT A BULLSHIT STORY , MY BROTHER FOUGHT IN THE VIETNAM R WAR, I SERVED IN THE FIRST GULF WAR, IT’S A DAMN FACT MCCAIN WAS ALWAYS DISLIKED BY MANY NAVY CORPSMEN , HE WAS CALLED SONG BIRD MCCAIN & THE VIETKONG HAD A 300% INCREASE IN KILL RATES WHILE MCCAIN WAS IN CAPTIVITY….. MCCAIN DID PULL THE BULLSHIT PRANK THAT WENT BAD, & IT’S THE SAME THING AS WHEN YOU MAKE A CAR BACK FIRE, USED TO DO IT IN MY 56 CHEVY 4 on THE FLOOR, WHEN YOU DOWN SHIFT AND LET OUT THE CLUTCH….. YOU GET SOME BIG POP’S THAT SOUND LIKE A SHOTGUN BLAST …. IF YOU KNEW THE ASSHAT ATTITUDE MCCAIN ALL HIS LIFE , HE HASNT CHANGED — HE DID SHIT HIS WAY , AND HAD PEOPLE ALL WILLING TO LIE FOR HIS ASS! IT DIDNT MATTER IF HE WAS OVER SPAIN, OR FUCKING WITH HIS CONTROLS IN THE COCKPIT, WHILE HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THE BALL ON HIS GLIDE PATH & DESCENT , MACCAIN ON ANOTHER OCCASION WAS MAKING THE ENGINES SMOKE AS HE WAS ON DESCENT WE ALL ASSUME HE WAS FUCKING AROUND AGAIN…. AND AT THE LAST MINUTE HE WAS TOO LOW & HE HAD TO EJECT & DITCH IT IN THE OCEAN , BEING RECKLESS IS NEVER COOL…. BUT MCCAIN I BELIEVE WRECKED 3 JETS, ANOTHER TIME IN SPAIN WHEN MCCAIN ADMITTED HE WAS DAREDEVIL CLOWNING & AS HE TRIED TO FLY LOW & SCARE THE PEOPLE ON THE GROUND, MCCAIN HIT THE POWER LINES, & HE JOKED ABOUT HOW HE TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS IN SPAIN…/ DUDE HAD HATERS HIS ENTIRE LIFE …
Very strong message there. But agree with you 100%.
His high ranking daddy and granddaddy cleaned up his messes. Better believe it.
FUCK YOU ALL …FUCKING TRUMPETTES!
John McCain was everything that Trump couldn’t ever be.
Trump is a pussy, a coward, a phony, and I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire. But I will piss on his grave. Can’t wait.
John McCain was a murdering neo-con who never saw a country he didn’t think should be bombed. We’ll be pissing on your grave when you left wing lunatics push just a little too far.
Anonymous, lol, yes a joke and a coward!
He’s a coward for taking the Deep State on? Maybe for not going to Nam he was. But he’s no coward now for taking on the deep State. Phil Mudd(ex-CIA) on CNN said the Gov’t is gonna kill this guy. Didn’t turn out to well for Kennedy.
You sincerely better hope they don’t kill Trump. If they do this country is going to turn into a third world shit hole overnight. Truckers can’t truck when all out Civil War is going on and truckers deliver everything including your food. Plus a few million Liberals will be dead too. Dead bodies everywhere. Are YOU ready for that?
Bugs, I tend to agree. Buzzards will be like chickens if they manage to cook off something that stupid stupid.
Reported to FBI
Then they’ll learn the truth as well.
Wasn’t president. LOL
Aww, such a tender little snowflake you are. Did somebody steal your safe space and eat all of your play-doh? LMAO! Trump will probably outlive you and piss on your grave. MAGA!
Easy Slayer, don’t trigger him, he might not have access to crayons and a puppy.
Gotta move out of your mom’s basement first.
both jmcshame and your mom!
Fuck Allah and your religion of hate.
When the left has no answer ……they ALWAYS resort to foul language and and anger! Such ignorance.
A little emotional are we?
His shipmates say it’s true. And the viedo shows exactly what they describe!
Fucking worthless liar….Ivan you have a good translator software I’ll give you that. You never did shit, you never have done shit and never will. If you are not part of the solution you are a part of the problem. THIS IS FAKE DON ITS FAKE….., get a hobby, a girlfriend and stop waiting for the rapture.
I’ve read these stories and repeated them… I got totally blasted over it.. no matter what article I pasted into the comments I was told that it was all fake according to snoops!! I believe this article to be true there is just to many articles written about this.. I heard his records were sealed..
if it is false I really wish people would stop posting them..
Snopes and Factcheck are both Left-wing loony sites and of course everything they say is a lie. They always try to cover up the crimes and mishaps of DemocRats and RINOs. Those of us with a brain aren’t buying their BS.
Your 100% spot on. His 4 star admiral father and 4 star admiral grandfather probably spent half their careers cleaning up after this buffoon.
His grandfather died in 1945, on Sept 10th I believe, the day he returned home from serving in the Pacific theater. And, he was a three star Admiral at the time being given the fourth star posthumously. Not very likely that he cleaned up after him.
…a testimony of his vindictive and spiteful nature was his planned refusal to invite Sara Palin to his service…the only reason I supported the ticket. He died as he lived…he hated conservative groups, especially the Tea Party, as he voted against Trump’s attempt to end Obamacare. He placed his own ambitions and hate ahead of the people he was to serve. I wish no man a death such as his, but sadly he missed the opportunity for reparation for the evil he wrought on Americans. In finality, he chose not to rest in peace and I can’t wait for the end of ” his” staged memorials.
Bondserv said it ALL, McShame was an Idiot , and only because of his Father and Grandfather he could serv in the Navy, all his stupidity has been covered by his father, He was NO HERO !!!
OK, it’s a damn fact that I actually know someone on board the Forestal when this happened and McCain was NOT responsible for this disaster!
Y0u may be right (though what the displacement of the ship has to do with it is unclear) but McCain was as big a piece of shit as ever wore a uniform. Let’s ignore the fire on the ship and look at the rest of him.
–See “When Tokyo Rose ran for president”, by Ron Unz
–Read the famous Sydney Shaumberg article on McCain’s efforts to prevent investigation of missing POW’s
–Read about his involvement in the Keating Five; cost the taxpayer’s billions
–He dumped his loyal wife, who stood by him when he was a POW, because she was disfigured in an automobile accident. He then married a mobster’s daughter – her father took a five year fall for the Mafia. McCain got rich through this deal.
–He was a shill for Israel
–He wanted to go to war with every country on earth
–This bitter old man undercut the president at every turn. So much for loyalty.
–His son is an accurate reflection of the father, an arrogant, race-mixing idiot. The apple does not fall far from the tree.
McCain will not even be a footnote in history. Maverick my ass. A globalist cocksucker is what he was. Good riddance.
Keating 5 …
Even after death, he is costing we taxpayers. I believe I read somewhere, where it cost $35,000.00 an hour to fly Air Force II, I would like to know a good reason for wasting taxpayers money like this. How do you think this makes the families of the true dead heros and the vets that suffer in prison, who were actually torture, feel.
How much does it cost for your president every weekend?
Trump let them use the plane as a gesture of kindness. Nothing else. Obama and Mooshell burned through more wasted taxpayer money on one vacation than Trump ever could in his life.
Because his high ranking daddy and granddaddy got this shit cleaned UP. You think that two decorated veterans are going to let their son and grandson go down in history as a fuck up and traitor??? But of course they had this scrubbed from the media…..
was not flying F4’s if you want to be factual…….
I seen the viedo. Do u really think they wouldn’t cover for him. Watch the viedo! It shows the exact thing u r describe! It happened.
Nope. Story is 100% fake. Read truth here:
Written by a former Associated Press reporter. I suggest you research Operation Mockingbird, which never ended. Stop this nonsense of promoting a CIA-paid-for book.
Does DPS stand for DipShit?
You don’t know what you are talking about! A hot start is when the Engine exceeds maximum EGT during start. The engine then must be taken out of service, disassenbled, and have a hot section inspection. There is no fire in the tailpipe. a wet start is caused by excess fuel in the tailpipe during engine start resulting in a tailpipe fire that blows out flames from the burning fuel. This can be caused accidentally by a leaking fuel shutoff valve or intentionally by turning on fuel and igniters before the starter reaches at least 12% N1 speed.
That’s funny all his POW pals in Vietnam said he made numerous propaganda tapes for the Vietnamese. They were in the next room and heard them being pumped in. It wasn’t believed until a tape which was miscategorized at the national Archives showed up proved them right.
McCains records were sealed and still are. Would love to have then opened for all non believers, who would be shocked and the information can be found by google Did John McCain wreck his plan from a navy ship. The true story and not written by snoops.
Steve, you do a wet start by pulling the circuit-breakers to the igniters while your engine spins up. Meanwhile the fuel is flowing. Slap those breakers in late during the start-sequence and WHOOSH, you get a big fireball. Problem is, if you wait too long, now you could have a big fuel puddle literally dripping thru and under your engine case AND a possible fire that can’t be blown out by motoring. Did Johnny Wet-Start cause the disaster? Probably not by himself. Most accidents are a result of several factors lining up like the holes of so many slices of Swiss cheese. We had an uncommanded launch of a Zuma missile; plus deteriorated, leaking Korea-era 1000-pound bombs, used in desperation because of ordinance shortage. I believe his actions were a factor. In a 2003 interview for the national archives, he stated, “..there were flames under my aircraft. I had to climb forward over the refueling nozzle, jump, and roll thru the flames.”
The viedo shows a flame shoot out the back right into another plane carrying fuel and bombs. He was known to do this a lot according to his shipmates.
I have read that McCain was warned for wet-starting and that during the Forrestal he did it to get another pilots attention. The fire from HIS plane set off a rocket from the plane behind him which hit his plane. Then all hell broke loose. I just watched a video of him climbing out of the plane to the nose. 134 dead 161 wounded, and the Maverick was the 1st one flown off the ship with minor injuries. Nice to have 4 star Admiral Daddy to cover your ass
Written by a former Associated Press reporter. I suggest you research Operation Mockingbird, which never ended. Stop this nonsense of promoting a CIA-paid-for book.
Great bit of #FAKENEWS. He was never pardoned.
He didn’t have to b pardoned, they covered for him because of his father and grandfather. Cleaning up his history. He a know womanizer who withdrew his support of President nt Trump because of the way he treated women. But dumped his wife who was then in a wheelchair and waited for him through his internment. For a woman 20yrs his junior.
But watch the viedo of the incident and u will see the glam shoot out the back of the plane and hit another. His shipmates say they claimed up his record because of who he was but was responsible for the death of over 130 men and devastating injuries to over 160 more men. Watch ther viedo
Duzy, I read he was the first one off the ship flown by helicopter to another ship. Not due to injuries which were minor but because the crew wanted to ring his ignorant neck.
He was never pardoned because he was never charged with anything imbecile.
Yeah, I’m going to believe a guy who can’t even spell pardOned Or Nixon? Get a freakin’ education, THEN comment
Why are liberals always the spelling police?
Hey Steve… you fucktard!
If you’re going to take a steaming pile of shit on someone else’s comment perhaps you should review your own misinformation first!
The photo at the top of the page is an oil rig on fire, it’s used to illustrate the meaning of this website/blog…. not an aircraft carrier moron!
The Forrestal CV59, later re designated CVA59, was the first American Super Carrier and did in fact displace 82,000 long tons, was 930 feet long and was the first designed to launch and recover jet aircraft.
Wet or hot starting was on occasion done by arrogant and poorly prepared pilots during the era of Song Bird Johnny!
One only need investigate his sordid history of being a total jackass and even admitting to an interviewer during his run for President that he was the kind of hothead showboat pilot with Grand Pappy and Daddy covering his sorry ass!
He admitted to being a pilot that would “kick the tires and light the fires!” In reference to doing an incomplete preflight and just lighting up the turbines and going, usually without regard for his fellow pilots or the poor saps working the most dangerous 4 acres in the world… the flight crews and deck workers!
So fuck you and your haughty bullshit!
Nixon!
And you think for a single moment Nixon could have called for UCMJ action be taken against McCain in Feb 1973 when the entire media, Democrats, and RINOs of the day were against him? Really? I do not blame Nixon.
He should have taken the pardon, directed toward those who, under duress, gave information to their captors.
And faded away.
He spent the rest of his life using that POW hero status to get votes, money and power.
Husband just told me Palin has been asked to stay away. And she’s still spouting the “rah rah rah he’s a hero” line.
Personally, being very well acquainted with the POW/poor me mindset, McCain probably worried she might make a more successful run at the White House than he and in his miserly spitely way, wanted to make sure she didn’t get any of “HIS” public adoration.
I hope someone pisses on his casket.
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speak up rick..
You must have something amazing to say…
Who got pardoned by Ford whose wife couldn’t stop drinking because of the corruption she found herself in.
McCain was not a songbird, he was not pardoned by Nixon and he did not start the Forrestal fire. all bullcrap propaganda!
THE TRUMPTATOE HEAD WHO WROTE THIS SUFFERS FROM CHRONIC ORAL DIARREA. HE FORGOT TO ANNOUNCE TRUMP HAS THE COMPLETE TAX RETURNS FROM YEARS 1996-2016 ARE COMING FROM 10 GALAXYS AWAY AND WILL BE HERE BY 2117!!!HE DID NOT LIE THEY ARE ON THEIR WAY!
What do tax forms have anything to do with this article? Another leftist trying to trash President Trump in any venue. Pathetic. Smh.
Damn. This really is the thread that wouldn’t die.
Perhaps, if the pos pow finally just goes away and we don’t have to listen to Cindy Lou Who vote for less freedom for all in order to honor her pos pow hubs, the thread will die.
There is no law that says Trump has to release his tax returns. Once again you are showing your stupidity.
Problem is states are trying to make it mandatory that a presidential candidate, namely Trump, release their tax returns before they can appear on the state’s ballot. I assume that will land in court.
States have no power over federal elections. States can not interject their own criteria in regards to a federal election.
Agree with you there, Anon.
Wow! You up late or very early? I’m visiting Circadia, where the beat goes on and the rhythm is a little off.
That’s odd, libatards don’t want voter id so illegals can vote. There r laws on thr books about what a canadate needs to show and he did. It’s not up to states. What we need is for voter id to b shown so that so many illegals can’t vote. But i’m sure that’s what u want. Because the Dems r all about getting the illegal votes
Hey, I’m not endorsing, just saying I see no need for releasing tax returns.
The problem is they can’t harass the people he does business with if they can’t get those. Her had shown every document the law requires. I’m sure HRCs were a phoney ad u can get anyway not reporting her pay for play. They need more people to harass and commit violence against
Just takes one clueless lib to change the conversation when they have no facts or knowledge of the discussion taking place.
Try researching retardhead. Even the Washington Post exposed him.
The same Washington Post that hates him? Ya, let’s ask them. LOL that’s stupid
Stay on subject fool!
When a traitor is caught protecting another traitor, they instantly change the subject. Killing people is a little more serious than legally keeping your financials private.
This article was written in 2015… long before Trump became a candidate for POTUS…
Jose will trash Trump anywhere he can, this article has nothing to do with Trump man ou ar a democratic sore loser 1st class
Tax evasion and murderous treason. Big difference pussy boy.
You are an idiot.
I don’t care about his tax returns. No body but the left does. I have heard more than anecdotal stories about McCain and his lackluster military career. It too mention as the nephew of an MIA/POW in Vietnam he hasn’t done shit for our family but bury intellreports and lie. John McCain is not a good person.
Tax forms? Is that all you got???
It’s true the majority of Americans don’t care about tax forms. And it’s a recent thing for presidential candidates.
That hate and violence. They only want to get their hands on more of P Trumps tax returns to do harassment and violence against the people he does business with. And back to McCain, he dumped his wife goe a woman 20 yrs his junior because an accident put her in a wheelchair. And was widely known to b a womanizer!
Too bad Trump the military, white hats and patriots have to save you. Why don’t you volunteer to scrub toilets at GTMO
Back at you
J. C. That’s hateful blabber.
I heard his tax returns were in a safe place. They were with Obamas birth records.
Hey stupid this is the story his shipmates tell. Not the same on after politicians cleaned it up. And President Trump would b a fool to give libatards any more of his taxes than the law required. They only want it to harass the people he does business with. U libatards should new get to lay ur eyes on them. Why u want more people to harass? Not like ur not don’t already harass half the country.
No, this is the story dozens of his shipmates tell. The fantasy story above is 100% fake.
Written by a former Associated Press reporter. I suggest you research Operation Mockingbird, which never ended. Stop this nonsense of promoting a CIA-paid-for book.
I see we have another Area 51 Acolyte who can’t deal with the facts. I’m guessing you’re still looking for the birth cert.
There is no birth certificate
but that’s a bigger problem ,
One that history will correct .
Birth certificate or not his term still illegal. 1928 USSC, told hold office of POTUS, a person must have 2 parent that are legal US citizens. It, didn’t.
Besides, who was the damn one running around making money saying a boy from kenya, was able to become a U.S. Senetor?
Or I guess all those videos, his books and articles are all made up. Yeah right!
Just like you are “still looking for” your dick,Bo Peep?
Hillarys favorite Republican
You have? Do they have personal knowledge of McLains responsibility seaside from hearsay?
His father and grandfather were both 4 Star admirals,Of course they were were going to protect him.The worst thing is that the Navy went along with the lie..If someone starts a fire and people are killed in result of the fire you set then they are guilty of murder.Well,they say inadvertently he caused the fire but no charges were ever filed against him,not even a reprimand.Just because he was a POW,does not make him a hero
Exactly. I got rather tired of all the hoopla and pretense around my father. It made his narcissism far worse and he began to believe the flattery.
Trump was a big hero by escaping the draft to serve his country four times..there is a special place in Hell reserved for Trump.
In hell next to your fellow priests, cardinals and bishops. Where do you rank your pedophile promoting pope next to Trump?
Amanda, I spent 4 years onboard the carrier USS Constellation CVA-64, (May 68- Jan 72)….And, as a “Proud Sailor”, I detest, McCain.
But before I go into the reasons, let me express my concerns of this photo.
A: the fantail, not a aft design that were of the Forrestal Class.
B: look up and there seems to be a helo pad ( the circular structure)..not so….
C: Again, look at the structure encompassed in flames. That’s the superstructure, all commands are there. Not a standard shape!!
D: The fireboat; Didn’t happen! Carriers only launch and recover, at sea, not where a fireboat would be nearby. far out at sea sailing into the wind.
E: In my 4 years, Naval Aviators, Even as McCain couldn’t arm his weapons on deck!
F: Yes the USS Forrestal had a huge explosion and sent to drydock for repairs, have to check the dates. Sailors did perish from it.
In my opinion this IS a fake shot of the real reason and subsequent fires… Whoever is posting this needs to have their balls removed with a handsaw!!
I have no respect for John McCain. At the time he went to Washington, he became as corrupted as any up there, R or D behind the name.
Ronald W. Weed EM3 E-5 Division USS Constellation CVA-64 68-72
Yeah, that photo is NOT the Forrestal. Furthermore, even an Admiral’s son would have been sent to Leavenworth for deliberately if indirectly causing the deaths of 134 sailors. McCain was a pee poor pilot who crashed three planes, and I despise the man, but I can’t hang him for this. This story has been around for years and occasionally resurfaces, with no iota of evidence to support it.
You don’t know what your talking about. I was in the Navy in the 70’s. Any officer could get away with murder. They just get transferred to another ship.
See “Tailhook Scandal”
Thanks for posting, man.
S’Damn hard to know “what” to believe these days. ( I “do” think McCain would be a
BETTER PATRIOT if he “got behind our president to “support him” and not “back stab
him” all the time.)……..m’jus’sayin’…….
I must agree, the photo is a total fake and there surely wasn’t a fire boat around at the time of the explosion at sea far off the coast of Vietnam. I spent 22 years in the Navy during that time and I never heard the story of McCain causing the terrible fire. I’m not denying it, but it sounds kind of far fetched to me. I really don’t like McCain for many other reasons so I’m definitely not trying to cover for him. Retired Chief Corpman
Ther video is out there i seem it. And a fireball shoots out the back of his plane and hits a plane of fuel and bombs. They covered it by saying it wasn’t him. But his mates say it was. Look it up.
“Tailhook Scandal “
You are as dumb as a lamp post. The picture is an oil platform burning. The burning platform…. get it?
This article is highly inaccurate . The rocket was accidentally fired from an F-4 Phantom across the deck from McCains A-4 Skyhawk . It hit McCains airplane and he is lucky he escaped . Despite the fact that he could go back stateside with the rest of his crew , he volunteered instead to be transferred to the USS Oriskany to stay in the fight . Three months later he was shot down , tortured and made a POW . Because his Father and Grandfather were US Navy Flag Officers he could have gone home . He declined the offer and remained there for 5 1/2 years . He was promoted to CDR then Captain and despite his enormous injuries due to the crash and beatings by the Vietcong he returned to the air as a Naval flight instructor . Now 80 , he is in the toughest battle of his life . I wish him well as I deeply respect this man . He has faults like any other man , but he is a man , he is human .
Good luck Senator . I wish you a speedy recovery .
Too late, he died.
If you were responsible for the deaths of 134 sailors, would you stay on that ship? Hell no you wouldn’t, there is to many ways to sabotage his ass!
“He declined the offer and remained there for 5 1/2 years”
McCain would have broken Navy rules if he accepted the early release.
A known: The Communist only give early release to people they find useful to them.
Spell?? Solshintshen the Russian writer: “Our true heroes captured in Vietnam never returned home.” McCain helped in the coverup of the many known prisoners who were never released from Vietnam.
Thr whole truth may be lost, but it is undisputable that McCain was in the Saigon Officers’ Club six hours +/- being interviewed by RW Apple of the NYTimes about the disaster. McCain, dressed in his whites, was getting his spin out to start to shape the narrative so he could keep himself out of Leavenworth.
The Forrestal still had 3 calls to abandon ship to run through yet, MCain was the only uninjured sailor removed from the Forrestal up to 24 hours after the accident: everyone else removed was either dead, ot near death.
Well said
Dumb shitforbrains, plenty of us knew people involved and how mcstain started fire.
Like the dozens interviewed in this book who served on the Forrestal and call you a liar?
Written by a former Associated Press reporter. I suggest you research Operation Mockingbird, which never ended. Stop this nonsense of promoting a CIA-paid-for book.
Last Resort, you apparently not realize how things really work.
A lot of this fire could have been averted if the sailors were fighting it correctly. Some used water and some used the correct method of using a sea foaming agent
Right, blame the sailors fighting the fire and not the moron that caused it….real smart…
real easy to fault the fire fighting tech this far after the event. I bet they fought with what was available. In boot at fire school we fought with both. Admittedly foam is best, but if water was all you had, it could be used to cool the ordinance on deck, to hopefully cool it, and prevent further detonations. Don’t you put this on the sailors fighting the fire on the flight deck you M*Ther *ucker. This was a naval aviator screw up.
Wanna know why??? Because the only trained fire fighting personnel were killed in the first two explosions!!
Wanna know the REAL REASON this fire happened??
1) Breach of protocol by an Ordnanceman who removed a pin he shouldn’t have prior to an electrical test.
2) A shirt during said electrical test for a Zuni rocket caused a short that launched the missile across the deck and struck a plane a couple down from McCain.
3)The rocket caused the plane it hit to explode. That plane and others nearby were carrying WWII ordnance (bombs), whose cook off times (time until they exploded) were significantly less than the ordnance that had previously been used.
4)The lower cook off times of the weapons caused the trained fire fighting personnel to be caught off guard when the weapons exploded, killing almost all of them. When they’d picked themselves up and tried to approach again (those that survived), they were killed in a second explosion.
5) These explosions ripped holes in the deck, allowing burning fuel to fall to the decks below.
This tragedy is one reason everyone that serves on a carrier, especially those on the flight deck, undergo flight deck firefighting training. This is why we have drills on what to do. Everyone that goes through flight deck firefighting also watches “Fire on the Flight Deck”, which is about the Forrestal’s fire in 1967 off of Yankee Station. A lot of the footage for the film comes from the carrier’s platt camera footage.
And this tragedy is in the AO’s “blood manual”, because people were killed because a note/caution/warning was ignored. I was an AO. I’ve seen the video.
While I don’t like McCain, people should know the real story of what happened. They shouldn’t be spoon fed sokoto appease someone else’s agenda.
In his book he claims it hit his plane. But after watching the video there is no fau the person in that plane survived.
How can you all mistake a burning oil production platform for an aircraft carrier? Have a good look, it’s glaringly obvious.
I’ve been told that the entire fire suppression crew were some of the first ones killed, most in the initial blast… Perhaps this may account for the inexperience of the sailors fighting the fire
I have read at the time of this fire the Navy did not know to not use water. I know this: 2 years later the Navy was teaching me to use water hoses to put out compartment oil fires. Not a word of foam use. Never heard of foam while in the Navy.
I did learn how to burn an eye shut fighting oil fire with water.
Awesome reply Ronald..and Thanks for your Service!!
The top photo is fake but the second one is not. The story, although poorly written, is pretty much true. McCain did the wet start (supposedly because he was having a feud with the pilot in the aircraft behind him, but that has not been confirmed), the flames from the wet start torched off a Zuni rocket on the airplane behind him and that rocket caused the rest of the catastrophe. To keep from being lynched, McCain was quietly transferred to another carrier. The Zuni rockets were famous for having electrical problems.
BULLSHIT!! SOP for ALL Navy flight ops is for the tailpipes to be pointed overboard during engine start-up. Was the aircraft behind him levitating over the South China Sea? The Zuni came from an F4 parked across the flight deck from McCain’s A4. This is very well illustrated in the actual Navy film that was running through the entire incident. I’m no fan of McCain, but to piss on the graves of the 134 brave sailors who gave their lives to protect Forrestal is beyond the pale.
I watched the video and it’s only their (navy) word for it that he wasn’t in the plane that shot the fireball out the back. His shipmates say it was him. And why does everyone forget about the other 160 injured?
Completely wrong. McCain did not cause that. His plane was the one that was hit by the rocket from across the flight deck. I served on the Forrestal and know the truth. Go to YouTube and watch Trial By Fire. It’s a documentary on it. Platform camera footage shows the beginning clearly. McCain is no saint but that was not his fault.
Did u serve with him or just on the same ship? I watched the video and there’s no way the person in that plane that was hit survived. Did u see how many of his shipmates came forward and said he was in the plane in front at fault. The government can say anything they want especially when it comes to someone with a famous family like his.
bull
The top photo (below the words “The Burning Platform) is the Deepwater Horizon Oil Drilling Platform. I worked on her offshore in the Gulf for a year.
The top photo is the logo for this website…the article is not about the top photo.
Well, McCain’s father was an active 4-Star in the Navy and his grandfather was also a 4-Star Admiral. That and his graduating (finally) from Naval Academy can get nearly anything overlooked. He would have washed out of Flight School if it wasn’t for that.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081007_investigating_john_mccains_tragedy_at_sea
Steve your account makes the most sense so far.
Thsnk you for your service and for the truth!
You are correct. This is a picture of an oil rig fire, not a carrier fire. There were no fireboats in the Gulf of Tonkin. And as an AO I can tell you a Zuni can be fired by any slight charge of static electricity. This “article” is pure crap. I detest McCain, but this is just wrong.
doesn’t look like a ship at all to me, looks more like some sort of platform, maybe oil?
Why don’t they just tell the real story……it is probably equally as damning! I have a deep feeling Trump is right about McCain’s character. As we have already witnessed, he has no concern for the American people…..he is as corrupt as they come!
I agree… 1 way to get the swamp out is to open up all the secrets they consider top secret for national security!! I read and read but there is always conflicting stories..
The top picture looks more like a Off Shore Drilling Rig and not any kind of Aircraft Carrier!
Look at the name of the blog moron! Baby boomers…
It’s an oil platform.
As much as I dislike McCain, I believe that he was IN THE A-4 Hit by the Zuni, not the one in which a short circuit caused the inadvertent launch of the Zuni, which I believe was an F-4 on the other side of the Forrestal’s stern. No way he could have caused the firing of the Zuni and the conflagration…
I was in the Navy 1969-1973 and before we go aboard ship we were required to see the training film, ‘Trial By Fire’, which was the account of the U.S.S. Forrestal incident. You are correct, an AO was testing the aircraft holding the Zuni pod for stray voltage, not realizing his meter was defective. In addition he violated the cardinal rule of hooking all electrically fired ordinance to the aircraft… meaning not until they are on the catapult facing forward. There was stray voltage in the plane and it fired aft and hit McCain’s plane, rupturing fuel tanks and so it happened. In the actual flight deck operations film, you can see the Zuni being fired off.
Yes those Zuni’s could be fired on deck there was a switch I think it was the down up and lock which is use to test the system.
The photo is a burning oil drilling platform.
I don’t know all of the circumstances BUT my stepbrother was on the USS Forrestal when the tragedy occurred! His bunk was under the flight deck where many sailors perished and many jumped overboard. He survived but not without bad memories.
Uh, look at the top of the page again. That picture is not part of the story. It is a off-shore drilling rig that is on fire and the name of the website is “the burning platform.” The only pic that is part of the article is the one IN the article and that is a photo of the incident.
It’s the cover photo used at the blog not a depiction of the incident, pull your head out!
Yes easy to see it dosent fit.
I WAS ON THE SISTER SHIP ORISKANY, THE START UP WAS CORRECT BUT, NOT BY MCCAIN? IT WAS A PORTABLE JET START UP EXHAUST, BLOWING ON A SIDEWINDER THAT STARTED IT! IT SET THE MISSLE SCREAMING TO THE OTHER SIDE STRIKING THE BIRDS THAT WERE ALREADY FUELED AND REARMED FOR THE NEXT LAUNCH, AND ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE BOMBS WERE NOT THE PROBLEM THE SIDEWINDERS WERE! AND THE REST IS HISTORY!
I think you 100% wrong. The sidewinder was set off do to an electrical short. Your talking about a huffer tractor. A huffer started the fire on Enterprise and it wasn’t sidewinder it was a rocket. The moron that was driving the tractor had the 1,800 degree exhaust pointed 18 in from the Zuni rocket pod cooking off the rocket. The driver was vaporized. 18 Mark. 87 500 lb bombs cooked off plus 35,000 gallons of jet fuel plus rockets,missiles and 20 mm amo. 28 dead 345 wounded. I was a hooker runner on the Big E. I got out just before the fire. I lost pals in that nightmare….
The burning object in the photo looks like an oil platform.
To all the people butt hurt over photo. The picture has nothing to do with the story. The website is called “Burning Platform”.
The picture relates to the website, not the story
Lots of newbies today replying apparently.
I do not doubt you and appreciate your service sir.
I don’t know the carrier or year but have seen the video of a accidental rocket firing from an A-7 (as I recall)that did hit aircraft on the deck resulting in multiple explosions and fire and I would imagine injuries and deaths.
Thank you for your honest observations and setting the story straight. Anyone who served faithfully our country is my kind of hero.
First of all I was there, this story is completely bull sh– the rocket fired completely opposite to what this lying idiot says and struck the fuel tank on Mcains plane. I don’t know what the pictures are but they are not the Forrestal. The boat in the picture looks like some kind of a tug boat and there weren’t any on Yankee Station that I ever seen. I’m not much of a Mcain fan anymore either but if you can’t come up with something better than this you should just shut your lying mouth.
Correction the first picture is not the Forrestal the second one is the Forrestal flight deck
How do we know you are who you say you are and were on the USS Forrestal during this incident or if you’re just a troll?
Anonymous IDK I have 1st person confidential that contradicts that if you’d care to find out .I prefer cell .Let me know ,Happy to oblige.Arizonan in the know!
I agree with Ronald W. Weed, that is NOT a photograph of ANY American Carrier. Also about arming on deck, I know today there are Weight On Wheel switches that do not allow this action.
In my 14 years and many cruises, I have seen the Plat Camera Video of the incident on the Forrestal so many time it is burned into my brain.
Also as said above, see items A thru F. and reconsider before you jump Amanda. There are many of us that spent the time at sea on the carriers and will call you out every time.
Donald Butler
ATC
USS Nimitz, USS Theodore Roosevelt, USS Abraham Lincoln 81-94
I agree with you a naval aviator would never arm missles on a carrier.
But Mclame would and he would do a wet start. He is a fake, spoon fed, spoiled brat who has had every mistake he ever made covered up by his ancestors and their names. He has profited from his time in POW camp and from his name. Nothing he has ever done on his own. He is a liar and backstabber. And those types of people don’t fly by the norms of general society. ( pun intended) Dumped his faithful wife for a prom queen barely out of high school and is generally considered a pos by everyone who knew him. For Joe Biden to praise him is enough for me to know the guy is crooked. There is no doubt in my mind that he did a wet start that caused the chain of events to begin that caused the fire on the carrier. He killed and mamed many of his own shipmates because of his arrogance. He crashed 3 planes that we know of because of either incompetence or sheer showing off stupidity. I used to listen to his daughter on radio. I thought she was pretty good except when it came to Trump. But after her speech she can kiss it also. McLame will only be remembered as a POW who had a crippled arm that was a senator. That’s it. Nothing more. I would rather be remembered as a loving father and a dear friend of really true friends than fake people trying to propagandize this loser’s death. I am sorry but it is true. “The swamp needs to be drained. And it cannot happen fast enough” We as a leader of the world have lost our way. It is time for our government to get back to “The Founding Fathers” ideas and ideals that this great nation was founded upon. We, and the a’holes in DC need to live to the letter of the law of our constitution. And to the morals of a decent society. Not profit on name alone or prosper by the indignity of others. We should own and earn our own merrit in this world. And not let success or power go to our heads. No one is above the law in my book. Especially the people we elect into office. I mean no one! Put Mclame in the dirt, put Hildabeast in prison and let her blab her mouth about everyone else who is corrupt ( oh and she will, I promise you that). Then throw all those people in jail. We can re-elect each and everyone of the bastards as is needed to work for us, The American people on an eight year term limit job. I am sick of all this bullshit about every politician being above the law and held on high because of something as stupid as a name or job position. And not being accountable for their own actions good or bad. Mclame is in the ground now throw Bill the pervert and his fat nasty smelling bitch/which of a so called wife in jail forever and lets get this thing going. NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ronald W. Weed, your comments have merit. The U.S.S. Forrestal was a tragic mess when it came in to Norfolk. I was there. I saw it. Robert C. Hahn EM1 E Div. U.S.S. La Salle LPD3 66-68.
My dad was on Forrestal when it happened
You are very correct in your report. Was on the gunline 3 times and never heard of this story. And also I used to work on a supply boat for the oil companys. This picture is of a oil platform not a ship.
James Wold EN-1 1970-1980 US Navy.
The photo at the top is of a “burning oil platform,” which by amazing coincidence is the title of this blog… So, it’s NOT a “fake photo” to illustrate the article, it’s an actual photo of a “burning platform” for a blog called “The Burning Platform.”
You should get that jerking knee checked out pronto!
As far as old “Wet-start” McCain goes, his compliance after getting shot down probably got 10 times more men killed than on the Forrestal. If you can’t fathom a cover-up for a four-star’s son, you don’t know what a fathom is.
The picture is of a burning oil platform, a reused picture from that to introduction to the article from the the “Burning Platform site. Yes it is an oil platform, not even a ship, thus the fireboat. So disregard the lead in picture. There are plenty of true Forrestal CV59 pictures out there showing the fire and resultant damage. Surprised with your background you even thought it was a carrier. As an HMC (FMF) . No I was there, but did firefighting school about 10 times in 26 years.
From what I read about this incident, the missile was launched from an aircraft that was not piloted by McCain. So I tend to agree with you that this story is not accurate. I for one detest the man, I call him John McShame for a reason. But you lose credibility when you make accusations based on inaccurate information.
The picture in question has a familiar look to it. If I’m not mistaken, that is a photo of a burning oil platform (Deep Sea Horizon?), not a ship. Anyone else recognize this photo?
Do wake up! The header pic is obviously an oil rig fire to match the site title.
Look below, at the carrier deck fire with A4s in the pic. Oil rigs don’t house fighter jets last time I looked.
As for: “In my 4 years, Naval Aviators, Even as McCain couldn’t arm his weapons on deck!” Do you mean unable to arm or should not arm according to protocol?
Your observation skills are “unique”.
It seems many disagreeing with this are former military indoctrinated by the military. Curious, that.
thanks!
I agree with you. However, the real USS Forrestal fire did happen as explained. It used to be a “must see” for every Naval recruit in boot.
-USN Disabled Veteran
“Connie” sailor is Correct. I was on the USS Independence CV62. Loaded tons of Zuni rocket pods on fighter aircraft. As a AO (aviation ordnanceman) during training they showed videos of this terrible mishap. Don’t follow the story on how the Zuni rocket motor was fired, we where told/instructed that stray voltage when the pod was plugged set off the rocket. As we always tested electrical connectors for stray voltage before plugging them in.
The whole hot start story seems like B.S.
James Schneider AO2 Fighter squadron 33 aboard the USS Independence.
The Washington Post also reported this.
That impresses me… the Washington ComPost!!!
I have to pop your bubble but the image you referring to has nothing to do with the article, it is retouched photos they use on there home page and nothing to do with this story, it is the same illustrations the use on all stories. You forgot to mention the difference in light directions and the pier line on the water line. I guess you would be new to the site.
Ronald, I agree with you. I was stationed on the USS Saratoga and we went to the Med. I did go aboard the Forrestal in 1970 and a couple of sailors told me about fire from 1967. I didn’t know about it at the time. I wasn’t on a carrier as long as you, but I was on it long enough to know what you said was true.
At about 27 min it starts the evidence of what happened. McCain was there but it was a safety measure that did not work. The only way John McCain can be criticized that day is that when resque help came he was evacuated with the wounded even though he was not wounded His Father got him out of there. But is that so bad he would not be of help in clean up he was a pilot?
Absolutely! This is FAKE NEWS starting with an oil platform on fire in order to draw attention to a factually incorrect article. I was in the Navy and on duty at a Hawaiian communication station FOCPAC when this story broke. The reason this stays with me for so long is that McCain’s dad was still in command when this happened. Then 6 months later McCain was shot down over Viet Nam. The missile that started the fire came from across the deck from McCain’s Skyraider and struck the plane next to his.
I have no idea what that first photo was of. Glad to hear of an EM on here. Rcarter IC1 USS Kitty Hawk 65-69.
The picture is clearly a fire on an off shore drilling platform not even an aircraft carrier.
i was on cva 59. the photo you refer to looks like an oil platform.. the second photo looks like the forrestal… mccain couldn’t arm the missile…. an ordinance man did.. after the fire ,, missiles were to be armed at the catapults. stray voltage could set a missile off, so we didn’t plug them into the ter/or mer, until they were aimed at the ocean…….. pilots had to have their hands in the air so we could see them, before we went under wing and plugged the missile in , also we ran a quick voltage test to check for stray voltage… i think it took 3? volts or less to set them off.. don’t know if mccain played with the fire control switch ,, but it was red and had to be pushed forward before you could fire.. would be dumb if mccain was dicking with live ordinance on a crowded flight deck…… the forrestal was a bad luck ship… she was from norfolk va. all other carriers in viet nam were from the west coast … sending an east coast ship to viet nam , around south africa , was bad idea……. we had a mad stabber stabbing sailors in the back , in the dark, with a screwdriver,,, only a couple per month , for all the 6mos i was there, he never got caught.. also race tensions… blacks from east coast were not happy being forced to live with whites.. one white person in my division was found floating 2 weeks after being beaten and thrown overboard. i slept with a shore patrol night stick in my left hand. it was a cursed ship… at least for that cruise.. . .i was a plane pusher on the forrestal flight deck , but for my last 2 years in the navy, i was an ordinance man… and i plugged those little rockets in while on cva 14 in viet nam……… i got off the forrestal on july 20 , in the phillipines, , , the ship blew up 9 days later, almost half of the plane pushers were killed by explosions. our job was to put out fires. if you see the guys on the fire hoses,,, you see about 8 guys holding on to it ??? they were that powerful.. oh well…… i wasn’t there but they pushed at the fire with the sea water, and while pushing the fire away, the bombs blew up in their faces,,
He was already corrupt, long before he went to Washington. Even considering the damage he caused to so many Americans during his Navy service, it can’t compare to the damage he has done to our country while in Washington. Maverick my A$$.
Dear sailor dumbass… the top photo is a burning oil rig… end of story!
The rest of your “story” is now suspect!
Holy shit… if a “sailor” can’t tell the difference between an oil rig a fucking 930 long Super Carrier, can you really have been a sailor in the USN?
Hey Fuck head!!
Read the Encyclapedia of World Military Power written in 1986!!
McCain was at fault!!
Quit covering up for him you NWO POS!!
He is a pos rino and a bad person FUCK HIM AND FUCK YOU TOO!!
The photo is an oil rig.
Yes, because the website is called “The Burning Platform.” Get a clue.
Ronald Weed, My name is Mark Morell and I was Ltcdr McCains plane captain. What happened was after preflight and he did a thour0ugh preflight. He did more of a preflight than kicking to tires and lighting the fires. I never saw anyone do a wet start, that can cause serious engine damage.
What happened that day was I had strapped him in went thru the hand signals and applied electrical power and the huffer came up and he had a normal start. The tail of the scooter was hanging over the ocean. I pulled the pins and the ladder and unchained him. I just got to the island when a zuni narrowly missed me. It was fired from and F4 directly across from his plane. it impacted and started a fire. I ran back to help him get out, but he had already got 0ut and was helping other pilots get clear. Whatever you say about him he was a hero that day.
The bombs were WW2 vintage and the casings were cracked, rusted and leaking. It was hot like a MF and the explosives were breaking down and leaking.
And the proof of who you are and account is?
Anon, the header photo is of a burning OIL platform, not a ship. It is the regular photo header that goes with this blog called – THE BURNING PLATFORM!
Congressional hearings determined he was guilty of be responsible for the incident on the Forrester. Those transcripts were ordered sealed by his daddy. He was pardoned by Nixon. Likewise, POWs that were with him at Hanoi Hilton talk about how he was a trustee. Never tortured and got preferential treatment. He can’t lift his arms because of two broken collar bones from his crash. Not from being tortured. Wet Start/Songbird John McCain is a traitor, liar and has voted against bills that would benefit veterans and retrieve MIAs still missing in Vietnam. For him, cancer is not a disease but a cure.
I agree with your statement do you know of the article or book you r referring too? I want to read it!!
I also know someone(whom I dated) who served on the U.S.S Forrestal. So you think you can change the “story”, nice try.
McShame committed the crime, get over it…
There is a video documentary about the forrestal fire. It was shot from The air boss station. I watched it in boot camp. It shows how things happened. My first CPO was a snipe that was awarded for bravery by saving lives leading a group of men out of main space,single file each man holding belt of man in front, using his penlight flashlight. He hated McCain for what he did.
Nobody really cares about the photo. They’re concentrating on the fact that McCain sucked.
His shipmates say that’s what happened. Asked that not supposed to b the ship that it happened on. There is viedo of the fireball shooting out of the rear of his plane and hitting the one behind him. Watch the viedo and u can belive him or all his shipmates.
Liar. Dozens of his shipmates say it didn’t happen. No video of fireball shooting out of rear of his plane. Read this then bury your lying’ face in shame:
Written by a former Associated Press reporter. I suggest you research Operation Mockingbird, which never ended. Stop this nonsense of promoting a CIA-paid-for book.
Electricians Mate 3rd Class is an E-4 not E-5
Even though I am not crazy about how he is behaving these days the pictures shown here have been shown to us in the Navy before and have nothing to do with him. That carrier was known as the USS Forest Fire because it had several of them which also had nothing to do with McCain.
The pictures may not be the right ones but the screw up that Mc Cain made to cause the fire is real.
You have no idea what you are talking about
the zuni launched from other side of the flight deck and hit whites plain next mccains, it didn’t explode but pierced whites fuel tank starting the conflagration.
the zuni came from the other side of the deck from mccains jet you idiot
It was also called the USS Zippo
Why have we never before heard from survivors and eye witnesses of this? I know that had I been on the carrier and witnessed this, I would have been a very vocal opponent of the perpetrator regardless of his high brass ties. Is this so well covered up that witnesses are afraid to come forward? Or is it just fake news? I am very much against McCain but this needs a lot more corroboration or it is just more fake news.
In the Navy, there’s a saying: If it moves, salute it. If it doesn’t move, paint it! Once the brass decided to protect Juan McAmnesty, bucking that decision would have you in the brig, or worse.
“If it moves, move it: If it doesn’t move, paint it: If it moves by itself, salute it.” …as learned in boot camp, Bainbridge, Maryland, in summer of 1954.
Dir sir ,I have personal knowledge of this if you’d care to hear it. Anonymous PHX ,AZ I’d prefer cell phone though so let me know and I’ll get right back to you .Native Arizonan.
we have
Fake News – see Wikipedia “1967 USS Forrestal fire”
Did you meet any of the victims, or were you related to any of them? If so name them please. Inquiring minds and all that…
With all due respect Sir OTR I’d tell you something different and its true. An Arizonan ,prefer cell though. So let me know .Sincerely A in AZ
My dad was there!!!!!
your to young to understand if u goggle it u will find many spoke up after that happened his dad got him outta that by the way his pappy was a 4 star admiral in the navy the so called accident could of very well been avoided
My uncle was on that ship. He passed away a few years ago from cancer but when these stories first came out, he was amazed at how twisted it had become. McCain had nothing to do with the missile launch and subsequent fire. This is fake history.
I have. And I am. The stories slandering Senator McCain are bogus.
Those who call this Fake news are the libturds that know absolutely nothing and yet know everything.
Thing is, if they know EVERYTHING, why are they not God?
This not what occurred. The aircraft were static in Pre flight. The engines were seaward. An F4 cooked off a Zuni rocket due to what is believed to be a static discharge the rocket struck the A4 beside mccains. There was no wet start issue in this accident. The fire fighting techniques were poor and the Navy revamped its procedures on fire fighting after this incident and continues to use the film in training
And you are? This didn’t happen the way this article states! The rocket and the fire were not from his aircraft, the rocket hit the Jet next to his as he was readying for taking off.
Sorry for late question! Just came across this info. Are you in connection with any of the victims, their families, or connected by blood? If so, please elaborate.
I know someone that was on deck that day, as it happened. It’s not fake news, or fake history.
The USS Forrestal fire was caused when a Zuni rocket on an F-4 Phantom across the deck misfired due to an electrical malfunction, went across the deck, and hit the aircraft behind McCain’s A-4, setting it on fire.
This is fake news, this is not how the fire started. I don’t like McCain either BUT this was not caused by McCain, his plane got hit from a rocket that accidentally fired which hit McCains plane spilling fuel out which caught on fire which caught other planes on fire which caused a 1,000 pound bomb to blow up which caused more problems. I was in the Navy and we saw films on this on what happened.
This was long ago debunked. You can believe it if you choose. But that doesn’t make it a fact. The incident did occur but McCain was not responsible. The fire was a result of a missile firing caused by a wiring short circuit.
I actually know someone on board the Forestal when this happened and McCain was NOT responsible for this disaster!
The story is totalo BS. McCain did nothing wrong.
McCain could not and did not start the fire. That is a total lie
Billy J Shafer USS Saratoga CVA 60 1968-1972
yeah just like the lies told about the confederate flag !
Well since you werent there and have no idea what you are talking about, never any facts, you show your ignorance by allowing someone else to control your thoughts. Way to go sheep. You all are amusing the rest of us. mccain is a traitor…always was, always will be.
McCain was (is) the classic, showoff, hot dog, screw-up. Every military unit has at least one.
His Forrestal responsibility is a matter of record and can easily be looked up. He’s been milking a “hero” image all his adult life. McCain is a clueless dork who belongs with his friends on the other side of the aisle.
Thank you Texan !
He was a major screw up while in the academy as well. Even his own autobiography tells of some of the “pranks” he pulled while at Annapolis. He graduated 894th of 899 cadets in his class and was a member of the “century club” – that is, he received more than 100 demerits in EACH of his 4 years there. He just decided not to conform with the rules and traditions of the academy and do his own thing.
He later mastered the art of flying directly into SAMs. Worst pilot ever in the Navy.
The Navy board of inquiry blamed a voltage surge and lack of following safety protocols for the fire and explosions. THAT is the official record…yours must be from spending too much time with your head up your arse…
You believe the Navy official version, made up by his Admiral Father and Grandfather?
One little inconvenient fact, it can’t be looked up and shown that McCain caused the fire on ANY government document. It’s only supported by demagogues and prevaricators.
Thus ended the McCain 4* Admiral tradition. That sums it up pretty well.
it happened, asshole !
Look moron, those are the facts, I served on 2 carriers,wegot fire fighting training on films of this screw up of McCain . You don’t know wtf you’re talking about.
Yes, the military indoctrinated you well. But you weren’t there to witness it, were you?
Hey Russ. This is absolute fact. Do a little research.
Please see Wikipedia for the facts.
McCain was almost killed in this event and not the cause.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_USS_Forrestal_fire
Funny when ANYBODY says to see Wikipedia for facts. Or do you not realize it can be edited by anybody at any time to say whatever somebody wants it to say?
Did McCain start this? I don’t know; I wasn’t there. But pointing to something that can be edited anywhere, anytime, by anyone, as fact seems kind of dumb…
Written by a former Associated Press reporter. I suggest you research Operation Mockingbird, which never ended. Stop this nonsense of promoting a CIA-paid-for book.
Did your parents have any children that lived?
#Russ for your information this is true….if you knew how he acted in the Vietnamese prison you would be surprised. Mccain lied that he was in Hỏa Lò Prison-Hanoi Hilton. Vc knew that he was grandson of American hero and 4 star general William Alexander McCain, that is why they treated him super-good. But he, he snitched everything and everyone. He was telling what he was asked and mostly not asked. He was and he still is just one frighten cunt. A traitor….
Do research and quit denying history.
I was a little girl and I remember the picture on LIFE magazine, I think it was.
Right, McCain did not cause the Forrestal accident. It was caused when a rocket was accidentally launched triggering a fire which later set off a 1000 lb bomb on deck.
The Forrestal accident was one of the most investigated Naval accidents in history and John McCain absolutely did not cause it. These people who claim he did are just smearing his name for political reasons.
It’s truly sad that Americans will gladly believe lies about a POW just to discredit a political opponent. People will say GOOGLE it’. Well Google historical discussions on the USS Forrestal accident. The US Naval Academy still had Forrestal lectures to this very day.
Figures he would be your hero….commie.
Hate to burst your bubble ( head ) as I remember very well watching as it happened on the news in 1967. Back when the media did their jobs. REPORTING REAL NEWS !!!!!
I was still in the Air Force back then and remember the Forrestal incident very well. I also remember how quickly it disappeared from the news, and how quickly McCain’s protectors re-bury it every time it re-surfaces. But, KARMA had it’s way with McCain afterwards, didn’t it? KARMA caught up with McCain, BIG-TIME.
absolutely!
not enough
Not soon enough, either.
Not completely, there is much more to come.
This does not surprise me. When we get away with things and it is covered up somehow we think we can do it again. Life is just catching with McCain
Too bad death isn’t catching up with mclame. That would be the ultimate karma.
And you are a suck f***. Wishing death on a hero is disgusting.
McCain is a traitor to the American people! PERIOD!
What really happened was McCain was sitting in his skyhawk waiting to launch when a phantom had an electrical problem and launched a zuni rocket that hit McCain’s skyhawk causing a fire. McCain climbed 0ut and helped the Spad pilots and other skyhawk pilots to safety. Lt commander McCain did not start the fire and you can’t wet start a skyhawk. he had 2 1000 pound bombs and no Zunis, he did have sidewinders on the outboard racks but they didn’t go off.
How do I know this you ask? I was there up close and personal. I was his plane captain and transfrerred to the Oriskany with him.
Thanks for telling the truth ,I was there also a few decks below you and you have told it exactly like it happened. Like it or hate it the truth will stand when the world is on fire!
Thanks fellas.
I have zero respect for McCain but in this case the truth should be what is most important. If it wasn’t his fault then time to move on.
Now there u go adding personal experence to a perfectly good conspiricy theory. You should know better sir!
Thank you Mark for sharing the facts!
And do we really know this? We don’t know you from adam, but I’m sure that you don’t care. But we do, and I’ve read plenty of first hand accounts and they were all different. So who’s to know who’s telling the truth or remembering it accurately in such a tragic and chaotic atmosphere? What we remember and think is the truth is not always the case. Most humans make terrible eyewitnesses. It’s only movie picture that can be counted on for true accuracy.
Actually it hit Commander Whites plane. That is the official report. The official report also shows that the only way the bomb (only one was on his place) could have dropped is due to pilot error. Traitor McCain didnt even help fight the fire or evac injured people. He was on the first HELO off the Forrestall! What a coward!
God Bless you for your service.
Why are all of your explanations exactly the same? It almost seems word for word. Are you perhaps all getting yoru save-McCain’s-ass story form the same place?
Some of us used to say that Charlie either hit him on the head one time too many or one time too few. What has changed?
Like I said even the Washington Post reported this.
Why can,t you face the truth? McCain was never a true hero he is a disgrace to American people not fake news I was there in nam so don,t pull your shits bout how goody he is as you never was in nam …boy.
Haha!! A faking mcpoopy pants lover
Go fuck urself
Wonderful picture of a a semi submersible oil/drilling platform never knew they were used as aircraft carriers
The website is called the burning platform, moron.
that isnt no drilling plattform i work on plattforms and that isnt one lollll
It’s pretty sad when you can’t tell a drilling platform from an aircraft carrier. I have been aboard 2 carriers that picture is not a drilling platform. no wonder you posted as anonymous. I would to if I was as stupid. I am referring to the second picture with the jet aircraft.
Actually, the USS Forrestall we called the Forrestfire for years. The pictures are used in training films about what not to do when fighting fires and all the mistakes made by brave sailors on this ship. They did not mention in these films the name of the aviator who started the whole thing. Not once. My guess the Navy covered up for their aviator hero. Spent two years on USS Constellation. The flight deck is a very very dangerous place to be.
Lacks specificity!
get it right history.com With the outbreak of the Vietnam War, McCain volunteered for combat duty and began flying carrier-based attack planes on low-altitude bombing runs against the North Vietnamese. He escaped serious injury on July 29, 1967, when his A-4 Skyhawk plane was accidentally shot by a missile on board the USS Forestal, causing explosions and fires that killed 134.
History .com is full of shit. “Johnny wet start” was famous for pulling stunts like that. He comes from a long line of admirals that covered up his assholeiness to save the family name. As a pow in nam the nva called him “the songbird” They also kept him in pc so the other prisoners wouldn’t kill him. You want to verify that go to any va hospital and ask a vet what he thinks about that pos.
Hey Asshol* check it out this is not fake news Goggle John McCain and you might change your mind. If you are Snow flack nothing will change your mind.
Ain’t it amazing how much you will discover when you do your own research instead of believing everything someone else says.
John McCain is not the hero he professes to be, the hero others believe him to be or the unflawed man he’d like the public to continue believing.
No, I am not perfect, I have made my own mistakes but I do think that people need to stop following blindly and accepting people like John McCain because of the position he holds and his claims of heroism.
Sounds to me that John McCain has not only dishonored his family name and tradition but he has dishonored his representation of America and her people. He and those like him should never be allowed to speak, in any form, for America or her people.
I feel the same about all the people blindly following Trump.
Idiot
While the picture is incorrect, the story is true.
JOHN MCCAIN IS HATED BY VIETNAM WAR VETS. ASIDE FROM THAT AND FOR ALL POSTERITY, PLEASE NAME ONE THING THAT MAN HAS EVER DONE WHILE IN OFFICE BECAUSE HE SURE DID NOTHING FOR OUR VETS IN THOSE VA HOSPITALS. N O T H I N G ! N O T H I N G !
He did lots of things while in office in Washington. None of them were any good for the American people. Especially for the middle class, or veterans. He most recently was the deciding vote that killed the repeal and replace program on Obamacare. If it would have helped some Illegal Aliens, he would have voted for it. He loves the Illegals. He said that “they’re all God’s children”. So what if they are. It’s not up to the American Taxpayers to support them, and their entire families. He is against “the wall”, or any other kind of border security. A true scumbag!
Why do you call it fake? Were you even born in 1967?
YES !
YES!!!!!!! piss ant! mccain show boated on his vote for abama care now cia and the other dork flack is going along! lets put them on obama care!!!!!!!!!!!
Its not fake news butt head.
I was wondering why they used a pic of the Deepwater Horizon burning in the Gulf.
Because the site is called “The Burning Platform.”
Hey fuck-face… who ever wrote this factual article should be commended… it is absolutely the truth… I was a Navy journalist at the time!!! Wake up & do your homework!!
Can you type anything that makes a point other than you have a foul mouth?
I am the one with a foul mouth and I am also a racist I hate everyone the same Muslim the most. The whole race should bo expunged.
It’s a shame the truth hurts you so bad. Do you need a binky?
Personal account of the USS Forrestal fire, July 29, 1967
“I was the pilot of an A-4E Skyhawk on the port side aft. As I started my engine, I heard a ‘whoosh’ and I saw a low-order explosion in front of me. I didn’t see what the primary cause was since I had my head down in the cockpit, turning on various electronics equipment. I looked up immediately and saw the two A-4s in front of the plane engulfed in flames and JP-5 fluid spreading pools in front of the aircraft. I saw a 1,000-pound bomb roll off the aircraft and roll about six feet back toward the middle of the flight deck and the bomb was resting in the pool of the burning JP-5 fluid. The flames were spreading rapidly moving with the wind on the deck. I began making preparations to exit the aircraft. I shut down the engine and at the time I had the impression that a 20mm cannon shell had exploded in the aircraft. I don’t think this was the case, however. I saw one man covered with flames blowing toward the center of the flight deck from the edge of the planes and I watched him making efforts to beat out the flames on his body. Two men rushed out on my right from the starboard side of the flight deck. Two boys from VA-106 and another yellow jersey came from the forward end of the ship and the three men began to drag the man from the vicinity of the fire and take his clothes off and put the firs tout. The fire was increasing in intensity and spreading as the wind blew the fuel aft and in a few moments a large fireball erupted in the vicinity of the 1,000-pound bomb and engulfed my aircraft! I exited the aircraft over the starboard side and proceeded under the tail of the two A-4s on my right on the fantail and went forward on the flight deck just in front of a line of Phantoms (F-4Bs) that were spotted along the starboard side.
“I saw two of the pilots to my left, while I was still in my plane, still in theirs. One had his canopy closed and the other one, I’m not sure. I went about one or two hundred feet when a very large blast knocked me up against the side of the fighter on my right. I regained my feet and continued on my way past number four elevator and was going around a Vigilante (RA-5C) when another explosion knocked me to my knees. I got up and continued forward and went around the aft of the island. When I observed the first explosion, I saw two men who were running aft with fire hoses taking the full blast. I believe they were killed instantly. After reaching the relative safety of the starboard side of the island, I observed a very badly burned man being helped by another injured man. I helped take the badly burned man down to the first deck. Two other men then took the burned man forward to sick bay and I reported to the ready room.”
Statement from LCdr. Robert “Bo” Browning, a member of VA-106 deployed aboard USS Forrestal (CVA 59). Text and photos courtesy of the National Museum of Naval Aviation Library, Pensacola, Florida.
So he didn’t see what caused it, is what you’re saying?
you can see him in a video jumping out of his jet
You don’t jump out of jets, you are launched. Otherwise you wouldn’t live
It is obvious that you and most everyone else posting on this site haven’t a clue about flightdeck operations, naval aviation or this event or it’s cause.
All operations on the roof are videotaped for possible later review. They are public record. The video clearly shows that the zuni rocket came off of an F-4B Phantom which was parked further foward on the flight deck. An AO (Aviation Ordinanceman) had been working on attaching the electrical pigtails to said missle. He was killed when the missle flight motor ignited from static electricity.
The zuni rocket flew the legth of the flightdeck striking McCan’s A-4 Skyhawk, which was parked, as well as with several other aircraft, with the tail pointed out over the edge of the flighdeck.
I happen to hate McCain with a passion, but even if you could do a “wet start” in an A-4, the aircraft has interlocks that must be satisfied before fuel can flow into the combustion cans, the tail was pointed out over the South China Sea and not on an aircraft beside him, as this sea story of an article suggests.
Additionally, it is McCain’s bird that explodes first, not a fellow pilots.
With the exception of my fellow “Roof Rats”, not one of you know what you’re talking about as you have no experience or true knowledge of working on the roof of a carrier.
ABE3(AW), USN(vet), 1980 – 91
ET2, US99(ret), 1991 – 99
W. Smith, right on bud! It cracks me up when people “explain” how things work when they know nothing of how things operate or even use the correct terminology.
why do you hate mccain so much!!!!!!!!! ROOF RAT from FURNACE MAN.
If you are on the ground, jumping out is simple.
No fire tugs offshore or photographers! UR correct.
I believe you’re confusing the top picture, (their logo) with the story pic. Yeah, that’s a rig, burning. You’ll see that on all their reports, ergo the name
Corsairs and Phantoms flew off the same deck. I was on the Saratoga CVA-60. Don’t know of any other ship carrying planes then to be shown on the deck as pictured. We had Helos, and the radar planes along with Intruders. It could be a very busy deck if they were all to take off. Intruders needed very little wind over the deck to be launched, we launched two at Anchor. Looks like and Aircraft Carrier deck to me. What’s your beef?
This is not FAKE NEWS! I was in Navy Aviation from 69′-73′ and made 3 Westpac cruises aboard the Forrestal. It is common knowledge among the Navy Aviation community that McCain did wet-start his A-4 Skyhawk and put in motion the series of events that killed and wounded all of those sailors. The following day, McCain was transferred to the Oriskany and the following week the was shot down. That’s how karma is supposed to work.
You are a LIAR! The Forrestal never made a WestPac cruse. It was stationed in the Med except for its trip to Vietnam in ’67. Did you even try or are you just writing this from your parents basement?
bull
The circumstantial evidence speaks volumes, such as McCain’s immediately being transferred.
Fake news? I just spent an entire day researching this guy. Read the accounts by his fellow sailors on the Forrestal and read first hand accounts by his fellow POW’s. Apparently you’re gainfully employed and only have time for a quick comment here or there. I am a retired educator of 35 years and am now retired. I have the time to find out things for myself. Do yourself a favor and read about this guy, I never knew either. You’ll be glad you did! Have you never wondered where all of his peers, Navy pilots and then POW pilots have NEVER stood on a stage with him, or campaigned for him…
That should have made people curious. Why didn’t it? Because they want to believe a POS like McCain is a hero.
Sets the bar low.
The picture is of an oil well, however the story is true!
TRUTH HURTS DONT IT
MOJAVEGREEN; WHAT WAS SAID ABOUT McCAIN AND THE EXPLOSION HE CAUSED IN WATERS OFF VIET NAM, IS 100%, TOTAL TRUTH.I WAS IN VIET NAM WHEN IT HAPPENED,AND THERE WAS A HUGE&QUICK COVER-UP DUE TO HIS FATHER & GRANDFATHER BEING NAVY ADMIRALS.GRAND FATHER LONG RETIRED,FATHER STILL ACTIVE AT THE TIME. SO MISS MO-JO COCK SUCKER,YOU ARE THE AFOREMENTIONED MENTIONED {FUC-ING SCUMBAG]. IF YOU CANT READ, ORHAVE NO FRIENDS WHO CCAN READ, JUST GO DOWN TO YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY,AND GET A KID IN THERE TO READ THE STORY TO YOUR DUMB ASS!!!!! 1967 WAS THE YEAR!!!
YOU THINK THIS DIDNT HAPPEN? Then fucking prove it didn’t! McCain is a twisted little man that hates everything that he didn’t personally come up with! Problem is he is mostly a Libtard without a goddamn original thought in his cloudy little brain, he turns out fucked up kids all gay and shit, that ain’t right?
Well, the photo’s wrong, but the event was quite real, and yes, McCain’s daddy was the Admiral. I remember reading about this in Reader’s Digest back in the 1960’s. He did sort of redeem himself later when a POW and refused special treatment due to his family connections, choosing to endure the Hanoi Hilton with his fellow POW’s.
I was in the Navy and received electronic systems that were blackened by this fire, it was a terrible event for sailors. I investigated and for sure McCain was shipped out immediately; the missiles came from his area (A4’s getting ready for flight); and by rumor he was doing the wet start garbage that started the events. Also his dad and granddad were the Navy big cheeses at the time. I may be biased, I have never like McCain for this reason so my judgement is slanted, I wish they could have done a better investigation but his dad was in charge.
The story I read said the zuni rocket was cooked off by the exhaust of a turbine powered NC-2. There is a flight deck video tape of it. Mc Cain was an LT when he was shot down. I’m not a big fan of Mc Cain but there seem to be a lot of holes in this story.
this version of the incident is disputed what is not disputed mccain crashed two planes and damaged a third plane. any other cadet would have been kicked out of the program afyer the first crash.
Mojavegreen, You are right.
Prove it wrong!!!
this is not fake news.. Johnny wetstart McCain needs to be in prison
Hey you clown this is real u piece of sht.
You are right it is a picture of BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill – Gulf of Mexico, of the rig burning.
If they can’t get the picture right, just how much of the rest of the story can anyone trust.
Really come on people, these things can be check all too easily. This just makes the Author look very stupid.
How many people are going to whine about the top photo? Yes, it’s an oil platform. And just look at the site’s name: https://www.theburningplatform.com
Think there may be a connection there?
No, because they’re idiots that can’t see the big picture.
it is true
You are a true idiot for not seeing that your buddy McCain was never a hero but murderer.
There are errors in this rendition…but it is essentially correct…and McCain went on to be the Hanoi songbird after incorrectly ejecting from his jet and breaking up his hands (he was not tortured to destroy his hands). To save himself he made propaganda recordings for North Vietnam and they are still circling on the Internet today.
Dennis, you are 100% right.
The picture is right you fucking scumbag
“The Right Picture” eh ? have none of you commenting on the pic having a fire tender, and a helo deck (so cant be the USS Forrestal) not the brains to recognize a webpage header photo … this header is not attached to the article.. It’s on the head of every page on this website. So many just have no web literacy at all….. The lower smaller Black n White is the articles photo.
Oh, and McCain ? He is a coward, a liar and a fop. he sucks any dick for money. Traitor to the USA.
Cuckolded tight wad who twists his thighs so tightly together the circulation to his penis is asphyxiated. Lol. Faggot. Only the Jewish media is legitimate, I forgot! Cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck wants a dick in his butt.
Keep watching fake news all the liberal net works. The men that served with McCain are the ones
that witnessed McCain’s actions.. You know nothing only spewing your BS.You were not there and probably were not even born yet.
I know for a fact this is true ass hole well known fact I have been on the forstall Senn the Planck in memory and that was just started for you brain dead traitor
Both my parents were Naval Officers and they knew of McCain well. It isn’t slander if it’s true.
Number 1, the photo you lead with is not Forrestal, hell it’s not even an aircraft carrier. There was no wet start. Zuni rocket pods are connected to the aircraft electrical system AFTER start and AFTER an electrical circuit test. The Pilot cannot arm weapons on deck. On Naval aircraft when the tail hook is down the guns are safed automatically, when the landing gear is down ALL ordnance is safed automatically. That safety procedure cannot be overridden by the pilot, but it can by the ground crew. Apparently the electrical test was not, or was improperly, performed. The aircraft had “stray voltage” and when the rocket pod was plugged in the rocket fired. NO FAULT OF MCCAIN. I think I know what I’m talking about. I was an instructor on the A-4 armament systems at NAS Lemoore, CA when the Forrestal fire occurred. I retired from the Navy as a Chief Aviation Ordnance Technician (W4)
Another idiot.
you do not represent yourself as anyone credible… however this is how misinformed people defend something they know little about by calling everyone idiots with swearing at them.
This true dickhead. My brother was an officer knew about it.
How do you know it is fake? Others who lost family members say it is true. Do you call them Bull Shit also?
John McCain needs to go back tohis rocking chair on his front porch and stay there, leaving the running of our GOVERNMENT to people who are more apt to listen to the people back home who want a change in how HEALTH CARE is handled. At the present time, Congress is so set in their ways no one will be able to deal with these ** DOO GOODERS and ESTABLISHMENT GOONS. /////////////////////
SEMPWER PRATUS
This is not FAKE NEWS. It has been documented and if you had half a brain, you’d know that. So who’s the scumbag, SCUMBAG Mojavegreen?
Really there are many articles on him messing up ! This attached link is by a highly regarded source that leans left but has high marks in factually reporting !
you pussy
no kidding.
The picture may not be correct, not sure, but the story is true. McCain was a spoiled snowflake who could not take orders. He was never a hero and the next to best thing that could have happened to the Navy did. The best would have been is he had not survived one of the many crashes he caused.
Perfect description of McCain, the consummate family man, Fucking scumbag!!
This is the worse kind of fake news. None of what they claim here could happen and this is from some one who has spent 5 deployments on carriers and worked on various aircraft types including 2 models of A-4. Wet starts that send flames out like that destroy engines plus the jets start with the exhaust pointed out over the water not at other jets.
YOUR AN IDIOT !!! I WAS THERE IN COUNTRY WHEN HE DID THIS FOOL !!
Zuni rocket launched from F4 Phantom(starboard side) hit McCain’s A4 Skyhawk (port side). The explosion from the rocket damaged the A4, causing a fuel leak and fire.
Unfortunately it is true and recorded in many places
Do your research, idiot. This has been known by veterans for years.
Um… Mojavegreen…
Take a look again at the name of the website you posted that little outburst on, please.
CHECK
Now, take a look again at that photograph you are ranting about. What is it?
A BURNING PLATFORM! Well wadya know! What’s the name of the website? THE BURNING PLATFORM. Well well, look at that (idiot).
THIS IS NOT FAKE NEWS. MCCAIN IS A TRAITOR! HE ALMOST SUNK THIS BOAT! HIS GRANDDADDY COVERED IT UP! HE ALSO FAILED TO FOLLOW FLIGHT PLANS AND THAT CAUSED HIM TO GET SHOT DOWN. HE ALSO RECEIVED SPECIAL TREATMENT WHILE IN CAPTIVITY. HE ALSO HAD HIS RECORD SEALED FROM THE PUBLIC TO KEEP THESE SECRETS HIDDEN. UNFORTUNATELY ITS OUT OF THE BAG THAT TRAITOR MCCAIN IS NO HERO!
Mojavegreen YOURE AN IDOT! THE PICTURE (SAD I HAVE TO EXPLAIN THIS TO A CAT IV <<-MENTAL CATEGORY IN THE MILITARY) IS JUST A REPRESENTATION OF A BURNING DECK! GET IT NOW? SAD LITTLE MORON. HOW IS IT FAKE NEWS BECAUSE THE LIBERAL HISTORY CHANNEL SAID SO? MCCAIN IS NO HERO! HE IS A TRAITOR! HE NEARLY SANK THE FORESTALL! PERIOD!
I can’t believe this stuff. In politics there is no way the opposite side will not find in Mc Cain records that gross occurrence and destroy him for good.
My comment? Stop posting ridiculous fake news. Let the Leftist to do that. We have to be different from them; honesty is our best weapon. Most of the american people know they are low class contenders. Do you like compete with them in this area??? Silly, totally stupid. Sorry to find this kind of garbage from our side.
The fact that he was a POW doesn’t make him a hero neither but here we have a tendency to create heroes to easily. That is a shame for the real heroes that by all means we have.
Are you referring to yourself? John McCain is a murderer. His antics killed over a hundred sailors! The TRUTH will prevail!
You ought to get a doctor to treat that cognitive dissonance of your’s it’s serious, when you cannot accept that McCain was, and still is a Traitor, maybe then your cognitive dissonance might go away. Smeghead.
Stop sucking this criminal pedophile traitors dick. I hate people like you that are too fucking stupid to do any research and the their ideas out of their ass.
Fuck you.
I’m with you Mojavegreen 100%
Exactly, I read the whole Incident Report complete with photos. The person who caused the fire was the guy who drives the start-up truck. He was starting McCain’s plane and the exhaust from his truck was right up against one of McCain’s Sidewinder Missiles and blew up the missile from exhaust heat which caused the whole chain of events. There is actually a photo of the trucks exhaust up against the missile with McCain standing in his cockpit pointing at the disastrous situation just seconds before it exploded.
I’m from Arizona and McCain is no friend of mine because he is a Dem in sheep’s clothing. But I hate to see a story get so misconstrued. I’d like to see the person who wrote this story fly an A-2 Skyhawk off of an Aircraft Carrier and fly into downtown Hanoi and drop bombs on a city that was more heavily defended than Berlin was during WW II. That’s hero stuff.
There is ONE way a missile leaves an aircraft. There is a switch that is purposely out of the way of the pilot so they don’t F&$K with it that allows ground crews to test the systems. He turned that shit on, did some rookie shit not following the checklist, and killed and maimed over 300 people.
THAT is truth news.
Dude, are you talking about the oil rig photo at the top of this and every other page? Because the one B&W pic is right from the USS Forrestal Fire entry on wikipedia.
Sorry, but this article is true. Unfortunately, Wikipedia decided to not included THIS in his history.
Sorry. True story. Do your research
You are obviously a shil. This information is very easy to verify on line. This is a 100 percent true story. Not to mention all his treasonous activity since then.
traitor
This fuck is a Russian op spreading Fake News. He is nothing but a troll. As a Vietnam era Veteran from this period this guy needs his face rearranged!
I suppose he didn’t abandon his sick wife either?
SOME OF US WERE THERE ( STUPID ) !!
John McCain was NOT involved in the USS Forrestal accident. His name was NEVER brought up. It wasn’t his jet that let go of the Zuni that caused the explosion.
Here’s a YouTube Documentary that’s pretty interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drXW4QZVHNI
Oh yes he was! I was in the Navy and I remember my CO telling us this story. There is a huge picture of it at Great Lakes!
Lady T Bitch shut the fuck up. Your ignorant face has a hard time making it to the bathroom.
You mean when you didn’t have his cock in your mouth? Go back to school and learn to read DOD reports not some shit from someone you were fucking you thought you heard…your a disgrace to the Navy Troll bitch!
history.com look it up lol With the outbreak of the Vietnam War, McCain volunteered for combat duty and began flying carrier-based attack planes on low-altitude bombing runs against the North Vietnamese. He escaped serious injury on July 29, 1967, when his A-4 Skyhawk plane was accidentally shot by a missile on board the USS Forestal, causing explosions and fires that killed 134.
It pays to have friends in high places to cover up bad behavior. It didn’t work quite so well for the “Songbird” with the propaganda tapes he made for the Viet Cong.
But look at the bright side. When released he hadn’t lost a lot of weight like everyone else. And kimchee can taste pretty good when prepared properly for special guests.
Kimchee is a Korean food. The Vietnamese do not eat kimchee. Oh, wait, you must be an American; the country where people are hog-ignorant of the rest of the world. Keep it up, champ. Your going to see big changes over the coming years.
Now that’s the FAKE NEWS. Just like his daddy and granddad wanted it to say. Fools will believe anything.
So, you actually believe the History Channel’s version of anything? Really? I did two tours in Vietnam, and I was less than two miles from My Lai. The History channel told a story about that incident that was 95% fiction. Don’t believe them. They’re a cable TV station, not an authority on the actual truth. Do you think that, even now, all of these years later, the government would allow them to tell the true story about anything that would make the military look as bad as they deserve to be depicted, at least in some cases? Grow up. Watch some old John Wayne movies if you really like fictitious military stories. Those old movies do it better, and they never claimed to be accurate, unlike the History Channel, or the Military channel. Have you ever heard of the word propaganda? It’s not just bad countries, like we’ve been taught to believe, that are guilty of propaganda. Sadly, we do it too. And lots of it. I’m a patriotic guy, and a proud veteran, but my eyes have been wide open for the last fifty years, and there’s a lot that I see on TV that’s just plain BS. I wish that it wasn’t true. Even still, I love our country. It’s still better than any other. Just don’t be so damn gullible.
I wish I could give you 1000 thumbs up.
Fucking Troll for the Russians
History.com? You must be joking.
You’re right, it was not his jet that fired the Zuni rocket. It was the F-4 parked behind McCain’s A-4. It was set off by the fire, not some electrical problem, although Zuni’s were famous for that.
WRONG STEVE. IT WAS FIRED FROM McCAIN’S A-4,SITTING ON DECK WAITING TO LAUNCH.
Idiot F4 phantom cooked off the missle hitting Several Skyhawks sitting on the side of catapult. A4 ???
Idiot
This was actually pretty well done however having been in the Navy in 1967 and having to bring one of my shipmates home who died in this incident I would like to make a couple of comments. 1. We did not use European weights, measures, or, comments. An American commentater who knew that would have helped. 2. In 1967 we did not have any Commodores! A Rear Admiral rates two stars, would have felt better seeing that. 3. Saw or heard no mention of McCain. Makes me wonder!
HE CERTAINLY WAS THE INSTIGATOR OF THAT EXPLOSION. YOU HAVE BEEN TAKEN OVER BY THE COVER-UP,SCANDAL. DO NOT DEFEND THAT TRAITOR,SCUMBAG.HE ALSO DID AND ADMITTED TO GIVING THE ENEMY INFORMATION IN EXCHANGE FOR EARLY RELEASE FROM POW CAMP,AND NUMEROUS OTHER PRIVILEGES. ALL SWORN TO UNDER OATH BY THE OTHER POW’S THERE. YOU NEED TO GO SEE YOUR PROCTOLOGIST, AND GET AN EXAM.
YOU SPEAK OF THE COVER UP AND YES HE WAS INVOLVED IN THE INCIDENT …HE CAUSED IT.
That’s because his daddy and granddad did such an awesome job of covering it up. Pays to have relatives in high places.
McCain is no Hero! He caused that fire. I remember my CO talking about it all the time how McCains granddaddy got this covered up so his boy could fly. Then he reminded us how McCain failed to follow flight plans and was downed over Vietnam. This Senator is a coward.
Nothing but propaganda. Get over it. McCain was as bad as this article depicts.
John McCain was on USS Forrestal that day & did cause the disaster, then left without helping his mates. I find it strange that he was not mentioned in this documentary although his name is listed in the beginning with the other pilots.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081007_investigating_john_mccains_tragedy_at_sea
An Admiral dad can come in handy for managing the official cover-up reports.
Although not seriously injured he ran off to the infirmary while leaving the the fire to others. His failure to stay where he was needed was a major factor in his transfer to the Oriskany soon after.
He is a disgrace to the uniform and to the citizens of this country. He should have been executed by the Viet Cong!
He was held by the NVA, not the VC.
Agreed
YOU don’t get pardons for good behavior. Those who knew him knew he was a fuck-up of the highest order.
YOU don’t get pardons for good behavior. Those who knew him knew he was a fuck-up of the highest order.His whole life is built on lies and ineptitude. Sawed off unintelligent nam version of Tokyo Rose.ARIZONA KEEPS DELIVERING THIS GARBAGE TO US EVERY 6 YEARS. IMPOSTOR. BURN IN HELL BITCH.
AM A DEMOCRAT, SO PLEASE STOP MAKING ALL DEMOCRATS LIKE EVIL…I KNOW SOME REPUBLICANS THAT ARE VERRY BAD TOO…ABOUT McCAIN, I HEARD A LOT OF BAD STORIES WILE I SERVED IN VIETNAM AND THAT WAS ONE OF THEM..THIS IS THE SECOND TIME SINCE THAT FIRST TOUR…AND ITS BEEN 39 YEARS…WOW…THERE MUST BE SOME TRUE TO IT…
THIS IS NOT “fake news” I WAS IN THE NAVY AT THAT TIME AND READ ALL THE NEWS IN THE “stars & stripes” MILITARY NEWSPAPER. LT.CMDR. McCAIN WAS THE PILOT THAT (supposedly, accidentally) LAUNCHED THAT “ZUNI” MISSILE. TORE HOLES IN THE DECK AND DID MERCILESSLY KILL ALL THOSE 134 SAILORS, DARN NEAR SUNK THAT CARRIER, IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE BRAVE MEN AND SHIPMATES OF THOSE THAT LOST THEIR LIVES..
I never did like this guy ever since he collaborated with the enemy (N.Vietnamese) while in Hanoi Hilton. Yes, that news is real news too,but also not carried by some mainstream media of the time.
This is all Bull Shit!
Why not have John McCain take a lie detector test ? If he’s innocent of the charge he should be happy to put this story to rest once and for all. Moreover we could also ask him about his involvement in the cover up of the Israeli attack on the U.S.S Liberty. The truth will set him free or put him in prison
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He would never agree to a polygraph test, any more than any other Washington politician, or any Clinton Crime Family member ever would.
John McCain is with out a doubt a war hero!! However he’s a war hero to the North Vietnamese. Old” wet start ” single handedly destroyed more navy aircraft and property and took out of service a U.S. aircraft carrier and killed and wounded more navy service men than the VC ever could!! There should be a statue erected to the “hawk that couldn’t fly but could sing” in front of the Hanoi Hilton saying: “We couldn’t have done it with out you” Comrade.
This was a reply to the comment that McCain is a “prisoner” of the New World Order.
Actually, he is doing it willingly. He’s only a prisoner of his own arrogance and greed.
YES HE IS JUST LIKE O’BOMB-A-LOT, MCCONELL, RYAN,
CLINTONs,
SCHUMER.
AND yes the sailors who survived had the rope to hang him
only cuz of who he daddy was did McCain “Crash all jets he ever flew” survive that day
What a lie! My husband was aboard the ship at the time! Share the real story!
Bullshit…. there is video of this incident on line…. He had nothing to do with the misfire and in fact barely made it out with his life..
Surrre, it must be true if it’s on the internet. you dont think the coverup would extend to published reports? You are exactly the gullible audience they target to believe and spread the bs.
And Bella is as gullible as they get because Bella believes what the government says. Even the oppressed in Soviet Russia didn’t believe the media. The Russians believed if the media said one thing, you believe the opposite.
Do your own research. Don’t just take the word for anyone here. Look into it. There are plenty of videos and websites attached here. It’s up to you.
The “published reports” were from the Navy, of which McCain’s father was the admiral. There is footage of McCain in sick bay following this incident even though he wasn’t injured. He was flown out as as soon as possible on a helicopter at the directions of his dad, but not injured, taking the place of injured soldiers. He shipmates say he was to blame for this fire on the Forrestal.
And that’s doesn’t even go into his “songbird” status as a POW in Vietnam, which I could go on about for hours. Meaning, he was a traitor to his country. He betrayed his fellow military and caused death to other servicemembers due to the information he provided to the VietCong. Please, please do your own research on this.
It’s not the “New” World Order, it’s the TECHNOCRATIC “Jew” World Order.
A willing and gleeful accomplice in the escalation of all foreign military conflicts since he became a Senator. He is complicit in the deaths of so so many of our military men and women. It’s no wonder he has brain cancer, it’s the evilness within him coming full circle! He will surely burn in the lake of fire…..
I detest this filthy RINO so much that I am willing to overlook his possible innocence in this matter, and jump on the F%@* McCain bandwagon!
Here is the report to show McCains record reported that McCain was at fault for the Fire on the Forrestall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPjOzzPgwA0
How about you fools who want to deny the truth… take it from someone who was someone who was there with him and had no reason to lie #STFU He is a one sick traitor!
Signed,
Female USARMY VETERAN ???????
The simple truth is that you can’t prove your case about McCain. It’s all innuendo and hearsay. And you, and others, treat that as if it’s the truth.
THE SONGBIRD OF THE VIETCONG HILTON !!
Him getting his ass shot out of the air and stuck in the Hanoi Hilton was probably the best thing for him and his career. He likely would have killed himself and possibly many others had his flying career continued. The ones in power have covered up there blunders for time immemorial, it wont change any time soon.
Bob.
Him getting shot was the best thing for our troops, and for the country. The man is no hero, and this article proves it.
The article is nothing but lies. People may not like his politics but he is in fact a War hero. He did not CAUSE this crap.
Didn’t know Lindsey Graham read this blog.
Calling something a lie when you can’t back up your ignorance makes you a blind fool. The U.S.S. Forrestal fire is a well documented fact.
It is true that the incident concerning the Forrestal is “a documented fact”. A friend from school, AN Charles Edward Long, died there that day. Should you care to research google “list of those killed on forrestal 29july67” to verify name. I despise RINO John McCain about as much as anyone. However, I refuse to lay the blame for that incident at McCain’s feet! There is a documentary on youtube of a US Navy Commander’s independent investigation (not involved with any government agency) explaining the true causes of that tragedy. Until it is refuted I will believe the Commander’s report…..P.S. I have but now noticed the previously mention report is posted by blogger “Joel” below!…. Semper Fi
Thank you for your rational post, I fully agree. I believed I viewed this. It was a very intense investigation on the “actual” cause.
I do, however, believed (IMHO) think McCain is a hot dog, always given more credit that is deserved.
You know more than you’re saying. He got the name “Hot Dog” in flight school in Florida long before he caused this worse Naval Disaster of the Entire Vietnam war. I have personally talked to the Flight instructor’s son in law about his “experience” in flight school, and someone should look up his scores there, starting at the bottom of the list, and not going any further up than the last name. As for the story in the article I personnaly talked with a Forrestal sailor who was on board the ship that fateful day, and he said the same as the story line that was posted here. I also state the picture is NOT of the incident that day as no Tugs were in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf, but the destroyer I was on and our sister ship were both right there fighting that fire… They were listing between 20 and 22 degrees by the time we got to them, and there was a great deal of worry that unless the fires were put out, that the Forrestal would sink; that God it didn’t, and the people of that ship deserve the credit for saving that ship, yet none were ever awarded at least the Meritorious Unit Commendation Ribbon like the sailors of both destroyers were…? As for McCain he needs to be removed from America and “Hanoi John” needs to be relocated back in Vietnam, in the least
The fire was real this story is bullshit! Educate yourself about it first then speak. you lack true knowledge of the fire
Meaning? Who is at fault? Explain yourself.
You are right about that it is a lie, I hate the man myself but you have to have truth and this was investigated. Before they got to the gulf, they had ruled that the pig tails should be plugged in before taking to the launching pads, against Known safety practices, combined with Out Dated Ordnance delivered the day before from WWII, And a whole LOT of safety violations caused it. He was Known as Song Bird McCain and did violate orders, And I can not stand him, BUT TRUTH instead of mindlessly following something is very IMPORTANT!
You want Proof, Learn about it, I was an AO on The USS Midway, My self, I do understand what happened.
Documentary: USS Forrestal Aircraft Carrier Disaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drXW4QZVHNI
IDIOT! McCain’s Skyhawk was ON THE RECEIVING END of the rocket next to White’s. How is he supposed to have caused the rocket on a plane parked on the opposite side of the carrier to fire? By using the force?! You might think that McCain really is a Sith lord, but come on!!
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081007_investigating_john_mccains_tragedy_at_sea
The story has been changed to protect the guilty. But the crew knew who started the fire and then ran away to the infirmary instead of helping fight the fire.
You know why his nickname is Songbird? For “singing” for the enemy in POW camp.. he’s a traitor, not a hero. The other POWs gave him the name for selling out. The other POWs were there, they know. [img
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How tragic, my dad was in the Navy at that time, is was on a repair ship I’m sure he knew men on that ship. We lived in Forrestal Village on base ( Great Lakes Naval station)in 1968 til 1971 when my dad retired.
Please don’t post that propaganda again.
McCain is part of the problem!
All because you say so. You won’t even use your name. Anonymous! And you site no Proof. You are as bad as McCain. You are even a coward!
Go to YouTube and search Trial by Fire. It has the platform camera footage of the fire. McCain was not responsible for the fire or any damage to anything. He’s no saint now, but he was a victim in 67 on the Forrestal. This is an irrefutable fact. Can’t be changed by wanting it to.
You are correct. Facts prove out he didn’t cause this. However his stupidity and cows hit action contributed to the confusion. Hero? Not close, ask his fellow POW’s. Stupid, in my opinion absolutely. He was shot down because he was not following mission flight rules . You will never hear that, why? Ask the Navy and his admiral father AND grandfather.
His only action was escaping an aircraft that was about to explode. He caused no confusion on the flight deck. He was in no way at fault for anything that happened that day. The only confusion was when the flight deck fire crews were wiped out due to the 500 lb and 1,000 lb bombs exploding from the intense heat. This was a major tragedy but it changed the way ships crews were trained in the future.
Once a maverick always a maverick
I read somewhere he got his ass shot down because he didn’t follow orders…It sounds like him…
Well said.
We all know how close you are to him Lindsey, but the facts are the facts. He most certainly did do it- the article is documented fact and completely true.
I was there when this happened. McCain was in an A-4 Attack plane. It only carried bombs not rockets. He was on the port side of the ship. The 5 inch Zuni rocket was fired from an F-4 fighter plane on the starboard side of the ship. The fired rocket hit the belly tank on McCain’s airplane and ignited the jet fuel in the tank. He in no way started the fire or contributed to it. The author of the article obviously has an axe to grind against McCain. Read the book Sailors to the End by Gregory Freeman and you will learn the truth.
Thank you for your service, Mr. Crutchley.
I was only 5 when this happened but I love learning about things like this.
You were great in the documentary, too! 🙂
I think it’s pretty awesome we have someone right here who was RIGHT THERE; to set the record straight.
God Bless
Thank you for the eyewitness report. And thanks for your service.
The story straight from Wikipedia…
Wikipedia? Please!
And your credentials are?
Mrs. Snopes
Yes he did cause this crap. You must be a mcCain liberal.
I’d remain “Anonymous” also if I exposed my slavish devotion to liberalism.
He even grassed on his fellow inmates when he was a resident at the Hanoi Hilton
You are 100% correct. People will believe anything. McCain was a victim and was nearly killed himself.
He caused this to happen by begin a smart Ass…and 134 sailors died, and another 161 were burned and caused Blindness. But I guess having a Grand daddy and Dad begin Four Star Admirals makes it just ok. You people make me laugh you have no idea about any of this.
O but I do girly he is no hero.
Theresa,
Look @ the above comment by Milt Crutchley.
He was THERE, on the carrier, where it happened.
He’s in the documentary that’s posted a few times in the
comments.
Mr. McCain had NOTHING to do with staring this awful
fire.
Have a good one!
According to Mr.Crutchly, There was a load of WWII Bombs setting on deck beside McCain Too… I find it odd considering that all that vintage of ordinance had been completely exhausted during The Korean War Per DOD records. And the do keep meticulous records!
Trust me. As someone who went through several dozen aircrew members records prior to their being shipped to the Pentagon for close examination, I can tell you that the military creates meticulous records when need be.
I changed nothing. Just flagged what might seem troublesome for others to determine correction/editing. It really is easier to revise history as you go.
I watched the declassified video of this on deck event, while at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in 1980. I cannot read McCain’s mind as to what he was thinking at the time, but this article describes those events just as I saw them in that video, a United States Navy Training Publication for a Damage Control Class!! Shortly after this disaster, McCain crashed his aircraft and became a war prisoner. A War Hero would have returned to safety with his aircraft to fight another day saving American lives and killing the enemy as directed. McCain went on to use his so-called War Hero status to enter politics and make a name for himself in the U S Senate as he collected a horrible voting record and the tag “RINO” on a year over year basis. Today he is just a hateful old George Soros supported grandstanding fake news developer and anti-Trump protestor. I’d say he is a pretty experienced Liar as well!!
If he is such a HERO why did he need a Presidential Pardon by Richard Nixon???? You don’t need a PARDON if you did nothing wrong. They don’t call him “Songbird ” for nothing. But then that was in the NAM days..which some smart asses know nothing about.
The article is true. My fiance was on the USS Hancock (CVA19) and they were turned around in Subic Bay The Philippines, to return to the line to replace the USS Forrestal. McCain is also solely responsible for the broken limbs he suffered when he bailed out because he did not follow proper procedures. He is a loser, a traitor, and not worth of respect.
Go look in the mirror kid he is never a hero take a look at your comments I see more thumbs down than like.
War hero? Why did Nixon pardon McCain for treason?
A hero does not cooperate with captors when a pow…and THAT is a fact. mccain is NO hero. I can see why you post as anonymous. Do you even know what a war hero is? you wont find the definition on snopes or cnn.
Yeah. Yeah, he did. All the magical thinking in the world won’t change what the sailors on the Forrestal knew. he did it. He’s a crap-out of the first water. Don’t be upset; no one likes to have to change a cherished belief, its just human nature to deny a truth that threatens a cherished belief. But it was him; he did it. You need to be honest with yourself, since you are only hurting yourself by using denial as a pacifier.
You do not know enough to give your opinion… Anonymous…Where you there? We have been told these lies for decades. The men that served with him know the truth. McCain was not a HERO. As my Arizona Senator he is worthless.
Most of McCain’s medals were awarded AFTER becoming a POW.
John McCain was the Biggest Dummy to ever attend the US Naval Academy.. The only reason he ever got into the Academy was because McCain’s father and grandfather were admirals in the United States Navy…
McCain graduated from the Naval Academy in June 1958; he was fifth from the bottom in class rank, 894th out of 899.. WOW.. U can’t get much stupider than that.. haha
Then After John McCain finally became a Navy Pilot:
McCAIN THE HERO NEARLY SUNK AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER & KILLED 134 SAILORS
Via Lew Rockwell
McCain, when a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy was a Navy pilot (they call themselves aviators). July 29, 1967 while on the deck and in his plane on the carrier U.S.S. Forrestal he managed to screw up procedures (officially denied and covered up by him and the Navy and also even promoted on Wikipedia if you care to look–reason to follow). He did a smart ass punk attention getting trick by doing a “wet start” up of his jet.
When a pilot wants to be a wise ass or show off, this type of engine start creates a large startling flame and lots of surprise noise from the rear of a jet engine on start up–this was no accident. This and the large subsequent electrical surge and apparent (incorrect and against policy) weapon arming (by the pilot) caused the launching of a powerful Zuni rocket across the carrier’s deck hitting other parked planes (photo below) that were packing 1,000 high-explosive pound bombs. The subsequent massive explosions, fire and destruction went several decks below and nearly sunk this major 82,000 ton U.S. aircraft carrier.
This stunt and aftermath caused the deathof 134 sailors and seriously injure (blow off arms legs, cause blindness and burns to another 161 sailors) and took the ship off the battle line for extensive repairs. Any other Navy pilot causing this type of death and destruction the Navy would have raped him and he would probably still be in the brig. Why not McCain? Well, first with many powerful connections this “little infraction” was covered up by the Navy (our most politically involved/connected service by the way).
You see his grandfather was a famous FOUR STAR Navy admiral and his dad was at the time of the incident was a powerful Navy FOUR STAR admiral and McCain graduated from the Navy Academy. So the old boy Navy tradition cover his ass network went into high gear immediately; and make no mistake, it does exist and it did for him.
Nice Job John McCain the great American HERO..
Those of us with a good understanding of the politics (and pettiness) of military leadership coupled with the corruption of government contractors conducting business with the military leaders have long suspected this of John McCain.
And to think we could have had him for president.
Impossible to say who would have been worse, McLaim
or obomba.
As much as I never liked Obama, McCain would have had us in many wars, and possibly another world war that would have gone nuclear. A pacifist buffoon would be at least a little bit better than anyone that would risk a nuclear war, as with Russia. McCain has always hated Russia/USSR, and has always wanted a military conflict with them. That’s why he went so ballistic over the fake Trump Dossier, with fake information about Russian collusion, and it’s why he ran with it to Comey, at the FBI. Turns out that Comey already had it in his possession for quite some time. Mc Cain just showed that he’d sell out the Republican candidate for President, for a chance to get a conflict with Putin started, even though the Dossier was ludacris, and completely unverified, and wasn’t even a little bit believable. A truly sad, pathetic, very jealous little warmonger, with no allegiance to anyone but himself, and his desire to destroy the world. He’s a very sick man, and I’m not referring to his cancer.
Thank the good Lord this man is dead! Good riddance.
This who thing is politically motivated copy and paste.
Learn the facts involved in it because the truth is much more powerful them fiction. I am Former USS Midway Aviation Ordnance Man, and as much as I hate to say it, McCain is innocent in this, So you change him from being Song Bird McCain to being Falsely accused McCain!
Ask yourself, The USS Forrestal Only spent 5 days in the Vietnam war, it was taken back to dry dock in PI After this FIFTH day….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drXW4QZVHNI
The ship was never drydocked in the Phillipines. They cleared up debris, patched holes, etc. And then we sailed home to Norfolk, Va. The ship was drydocked at the Ports mouth Naval Shipyard.
Please stop posting that over-used propaganda video.
Ever hear of a “weight on wheel” switch? Ordinance can’t be armed sitting on the deck. Wet starts are not a cool thing pilots do because they cause damage to the engine and down an aircraft. They sure don’t cause an electrical surge since the engine has to be up to speed before the generator will come online.
I wonder how many Navy pilots died or became POW’s because of him as well as all of the POW / MIA’s after the war because he stood in the way of any investigations of POW sightings in Vietnam.
Even though he was truly an awful pilot, he did manage to master the art of flying directly into a surface to air Missile. The other pilots on that mission literally said that ” he virtually flew into the surface to air missile”. They were his fellow pilots. Why would they ever say that? Because, that’s what really happened.
There is no stature of limitation on murder, even second degree nor treason as far as I know. McCain’s court martial is long long overdue.
Nixon pardoned Him.
Nixon pardoned him for being a traitor as a POW
I think it was a full pardon for anything that he had committed that was wrong, or illegal. A blanket pardon, per say.
My dad was in the Navy and stationed aboard the USS America at the time of this incident. I wasn’t aware of the above story until now and the thought came to mind that had McCain done this on the aircraft carrier on which my dad served, I very well might not be here today. This makes Trump’s recent declaration about McCain all the more poignant.
We can only hope there is a special place in hell for McStain.
So no one in the media thought to vet the Republican presidential candidate of 2008?
Oh never mind they also forgot to vet the other guy.
Excellent point.
Please let me underscore that McStain is a member of what political party? Oh yeah, the GOP. So although he’s a fuck, at the end of the day you guys support him.
My point is, let’s start supporting the person, not the party.
The only reason mc lame is a republican is because he couldn’t get elected as a democrat in AZ. Mc lame is and always will be a democrat.
Enter Cindy Lou Who
McStain is a RINO who has repeatedly threatened to switch parties. He has been primaried twice and been censured by the AZ Republican party for his actions. A censure that he responded to by having his cronies force the people responsible out of their party leadership positions. The problem is that he has a LOT of wealthy leftist supporters who help fund his campaigns to keep him in office. When they can outspend you by over 10 to 1, it’s hard to unseat an incumbent. One of his campaign operators even knocked over his primary opponent Kelli Ward’s elderly mother trying to harass Dr Ward during a campaign stop.
That indicates the problem with the States loosing their rights after the War of Northern Aggression. Back then, he would have been gone. Oh, the lose of states’ rights.
Hillary? You’ve got to be kidding!
Mr. Annomous, If you think it’s a lie, why don’t you try fact checking. you will find as I did, that in fact this item is true. So, what you don’t know either is that the guys in the prisoner war buildings with him also no he squealed like a baby and talked to the North Vietnames in order to prevent the pain of torture. They also at the time told this to the news media and it was covered because of his father and grandfather. They protected him. The President, Johnson also helped protect him and the complaints about him were covered up as per Democrats did and have done. Check the name of the aircraft carrier and you will find a clue you don’t want to believe. Look in 1960’s up to 1967. Wonder what you will find.
point of note here , McStain is a RINO
Yes, we could have elected Lying Hillary, Fast Boat Kerry, or even Killer Ted Kennedy!! GET A GRIP!! And maybe even a life!!
I am a Republican and I do not support John McCain. In my book, he is a disgusting excuse for a human being.
I don’t know ANYBODY who supports him. SOMEHOW he always gets re-elected, but no one in my family, and no one I know, votes for him. It’s really weird…
It’s because the elections are rigged. Unless you go back to paper ballots and you are allowed to watch the counts, you’re screwed and people like McCain are re-elected. It’s the same thing with Lindsey Graham in my state, South Carolina. Nobody likes that man.
I really dislike McCain, but this account is not true. The zuni rocket fired due to an electrical malfunction when the plane behind switched over to batt from apu after starting. There was a power surge and electrical short + an unsecured missile ready to go.
This is a hatchet job much like that attacks on kerry, another bozo, imho. McCain may have hot started but it did not kick off the zuni even if he did, although that is what is reported by many.
from wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_USS_Forrestal_fire
Of course many of you conspiracy types will say the CIA writes wiki entries.
quote:
At about 10:50 (local time) on 29 July, while preparations for the second strike of the day were being made, an unguided 5.0 in (127.0 mm) Mk-32 “Zuni” rocket, one of four contained in an LAU-10 underwing rocket pod mounted on an F-4B Phantom II (believed to be aircraft No. 110 from VF-11[1]), accidentally fired due to an electrical power surge during the switch from external to internal power. The surge, and a missing rocket safety pin, which would have prevented the fail surge, as well as a decision to plug in the “pigtail” system early to increase the number of takeoffs from the carrier, allowed the rocket to launch. (see below).
A drawing of the stern of Forrestal showing the spotting of aircraft at the time. Likely source of the Zuni was F-4 No. 110. White’s and McCain’s aircraft (A-4s No. 405 and 416, respectively) are in the right hand circle.
The rocket flew across the flight deck, striking a wing-mounted external fuel tank on an A-4E Skyhawk awaiting launch,[1] aircraft No. 405 from VA-46, piloted by Lieutenant Commander Fred D. White.[2][11] The Zuni rocket’s warhead safety mechanism prevented it from detonating, but the impact tore the tank off the wing and ignited the resulting spray of escaping JP-5 fuel, causing an instantaneous conflagration. Within seconds, other external fuel tanks on White’s aircraft overheated and ruptured, releasing more jet fuel to feed the flames, which began spreading along the flight deck.
The impact of the rocket had also dislodged two of the 1000-lb AN-M65 bombs, which fell to the deck, and lay in the pool of burning fuel between White’s aircraft and that of Lieutenant Commander John McCain. Damage Control Team No. 8 swung into action immediately, and Chief Gerald Farrier, recognizing the risk, and without the benefit of protective clothing, immediately smothered the bombs with a PKP fire extinguisher in an effort to knock down the fuel fire long enough to allow the pilots to escape. The pilots, still strapped into their aircraft, were immediately aware that a disaster was unfolding, but only some were able to escape in time. McCain, pilot of A-4 Skyhawk side No. 416, next to White’s, was among the first to notice the flames, and escaped by scrambling down the nose of his A-4 and jumping off the refueling probe shortly before the explosions began.
Damage Control Team No. 8 had been assured of a 10-minute window in which to extinguish
Yes. Wiki couldn’t possibly be false. It’s supplied by anonymous contributors.
We know we don’t know.
Hope one of these gets you to the cartoon…
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I’m really getting tired, Admin, of hearing about the exact same circumstances of “hero” John McCain from Wikipedia. Can these people not find another sources? Geez.
There’s dozens of sources in this book–but it’s likely to pop your idiotic conspiracy bubble if you read it. The above fairytale is 100% fake:
Written by a former Associated Press reporter. I suggest you research Operation Mockingbird, which never ended. Stop this nonsense of promoting a CIA-paid-for book.
One person posts this link and the liberal lunatics go crazy thinking it’s real. Ift you people would do your own reach, you find this is a psy-op. by the War Department.
It is amazing how easy it is to get the people to swallow the alternate story. I thought it would NEVER work when I saw it happening real-time during/post Desert Storm.
And, then they swallowed.
Soooo…lemme get this straight, the premise of the article is that Mclame screwed up big time, causing loss of life, severe injuries and significant damage to naval military assets.
THEN, the article asserts that McLame gets off scott free due to intimate familial relationships on up high in navy brass.
Soooooo…THEN, proffered as adequate, if not irrefutable, evidence of McDouchebag’s innocence is an anonymous wiki article??? A FREAKING WIKI ARTICLE?
While I agree both that McTraitor is reprehensible AND this article is a bit Trumped up (like how I worked that in there?) but, you ain’t goin’ to no court of law with a wiki article under your arm.
The point, regardless of how dubious the supporting article, that McFuckup screwed up big time and got off the hook due to pappa’s and gramps’ stars, is well made.
That is absolutely correct as the flight deck video shows. Even if McCain did a ‘hot start’, it couldn’t in of itself launch the ‘Zuni.’ Whoever the cause, it wasn’t McCain—-he would have been burned alive had he not walked out on the pitot tube of his Skyhawk and jumped and rolled through the flames to relative safety (the on deck fire crew then saved his life by dosing his flaming flight suit.) Most of them were subsequently killed by other exploding ordinance ticking off.
NO the wiki-pedia is written by people who don’t want McCain name to be shame.. SORRY.. THIS IS THE REAL STORY AS TOLD BY MANY WHO WERE ABROAD.. SO DON’T SULLY THE PEOPLE WHO DIED WITH WIKI-PEDIA.. (NOT ALLOWED IN COLLEGE.)
While going through naval firefighter school we saw video of this incident. Pictures clearly showed the rocket coming from McCain’s plane and him halfway in the cockpit.
No fan of McCain but I am an ordnanceman…the account above is accurate and on point…with following exception…the missing safety pin…it indeed was in place…but had reached a condition where it should not have been used due to wear and potential to vibrate out…
Fake my ass! Songbird McCain was a spoiled punk. Sing sing songbird!
sorry but when your grand father and father are both 4 star admirals, any story written by any of the navy’s own investigators have to be suspect. Talk to the launch crews who were on the deck that day, members of the ships crew, who will tell the truth and have no cover up to maintain, and you will hear the truth of what happened.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081007_investigating_john_mccains_tragedy_at_sea
Wrong again westcoaster, no wonder the west coast is so screwed up.
So when McCain was shot down and captured allegedly he, due to his father’s high rank the Communists were so impressed that McCain was offered up BY THE COMMUNISTS to be returned to the U.S. to show some type of recognition of his importance as the son of an active duty very powerful and influential U.S. Navy four star admiral (and he was). And then the fairy tale continues that McCain himself turned down the early release while still under the care of a communist doctor for his injuries so he could remain with his fellow prisoners for years and be tortured–oh sure! And remember, any information about his first hand refusal to stay a prisoner comes from him relating it to others.
Let’s say it were true. Then that would mean the hardcore Communist enemy fighting an active war against the U.S. deferred to his “importance and influence” and that of his dad (according to the story line).
In case you didn’t click on the link …. here is the rest of the article Admin posted ….
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So I ask you…if an enemy thought this much of him and his four star admiral dad, would not our own U.S. Navy during their “investigation” of the Zuni missile launch from his parked plane while he was in the cockpit starting it up also NOT do this for him and sweep this little infraction which could have sunk an aircraft carrier under the rug? You betcha! Of course the Navy covered up the Forrestal disaster for McCain and his family and Navy tradition.
BUT, think about this. Since when can any POW tell his Communist captures he does not want to go or do something–and they then obey him and his desires and requests? Anyone who believes that is a moron! It is all bullshit later created to advance a political future for this “heroic” navy pilot and former P.O.W..
But let’s pretend it is true. If it were true, probably the Communists wanted him back on duty so he could blow the hell out of another Navy ship–because they sure did not have the resources to cause this type of damage to our forces themselves.
After the war and the prisoner exchange McCain was allowed to continue his service and retired from the (old boy network) Navy as a Captain (a rank just short of admiral).
There is so much more on McCain but it would take too much to cover. The bottom line is Trump is correct when he says McCain is NOT a hero. Sure Trump is a huge pain in the ass, but it does not mean he does not know what he is talking about either. It is possible McCain did some sort of heroic type effort survival things like living through torture as did so many others during their capture–but he sure as hell isNOT a hero. Being a P.O.W. is not being a hero.
Escaping and then leading an attack back on his captures as Army Special Forces Lt. Colonel (then Lieutenant) James N. (Nick) Rowe did the next day after his escape and helicopter discovery and rescue all after being held in a tiny cage (and tortured) and having to live in far worse conditions than Hanoi Hilton for five years in the jungle of Viet Nam. Rowe, while racked with near death dysentery and weighing just 125 pounds of his original 180, barely able to walk did just that–he insisted on boarding a chopper to lead an attack against his former keeper’s camp deep in enemy territory before they could move to another location. Now that is pretty damn heroic–and he got nothing for that. In fact, you probably have never heard of him.
And when McCain makes self-serving remarks in a recent blatantly disingenuous effort to curry a connection with today’s younger voters in response to Trump’s mid-July comments by saying…“TODAY’S military people are better than his generation…” that remark has him spitting directly in the face of the many hundreds of thousands of those who served, lived, survived and died in our military during the years 1954 to 1981–McCain’s time on duty including his four years in the Navy Academy (the official headquarters for the good old boy network and its graduates).
Last, true to his behavior pattern of it’s always the other guy’s fault and he is just a really sweet guy McCain is working to try to convert and reposition Trump’s public stated opinion of McCain personally to make it look like Trump means what he said is about all former POWs.
Hey, it is just what McCain does and who he really is!
Col. Nick Roe was assassinated in The Philippines because he embarrassed the NVA with his escape and ability to tell the story of how they murdered Humbert Roque Versace.
In reality he was killled by communist rebels who wanted the US to close its bases in the PI and leave. It had nothing to do his previous status as a pow….it was 21 years after he escaped when he was killed in an ambush in Manila. More than enough time to relate any info on anything that may have happened while he was a pow. Just not credible info.
I had just left the P.I. when Col.Rowe was assasinated…YES, he was a TRUE HERO !
” McStain is a member of what political party? Oh yeah, the GOP. So although he’s a fuck, at the end of the day you guys support him.” ———- Westcoaster
If I stopped to comment every time you made a foolish comment, my fingers would fall off.
But, the above is a Special Kind Of Stupid. Might have to nominate you as King of Village Idiots.
This still makes me laugh.
“Of course many of you conspiracy types will say the CIA writes wiki entries.” —- Paulo
Actually, the link you posted was written by John McCain.
Did you ride on the short bus with Westcoaster. Anyone who relies on Wiki as a primary source of their “facts” is ……… NUTS.
I’ve voted GOP most of the time for 35 years. I’ve never voted for McCain. Did you vote for Obama, Westcoaster? Twice?
My jaw dropped when I read the article, how many people died, how everything was all hushed up. I was reading about McCain the other day. Article after article described him as being defiant of rules, full of ego. If this was hushed up, what else was? He would have learned early on that no matter what he did, his father and grandfather would bail him out.
Interesting article on McCain:
“McCain is often called a “war hero”, a title adorning an unlovely resume starting with a father who was an admiral and graduating fifth from the bottom at the US Naval Academy, where he earned the nickname “McNasty”.
McCain flew 23 bombing missions over North Vietnam, each averaging about half an hour, total time ten hours and thirty minutes. For these brief excursions the admiral’s son was awarded two Silver Stars, two Legions of Merit, two Distinguished Flying Crosses, three Bronze Stars, the Vietnamese Legion of Honor and three Purple Hearts. US Veteran Dispatch calculates our hero earned a medal an hour, which is pretty good going.” […]
A couple of years later he was interviewed in prison camp by Fernando Barral, a Spanish psychiatrist living in Cuba. The interview appeared in Granma on January 24, 1970. […]
“He (McCain) showed himself to be intellectually alert during the interview. From a morale point of view he is not in traumatic shock. He was able to be sarcastic, and even humorous, indicative of psychic equilibrium. From the moral and ideological point of view he showed us he is an insensitive individual without human depth,who does not show the slightest concern, who does not appear to have thought about the criminal acts he committed against a population from the absolute impunity of his airplane, and that nevertheless those people saved his life, fed him, and looked after his health and he is now healthy and strong. I believe that he has bombed densely populated places for sport. I noted that he was hardened, that he spoke of banal things as if he were at a cocktail party.”
Typical socio/psychopath, the type of person who ends up at the top of corporations and governments. Had I been responsible for the deaths of my fellow officers, I don’t think I could have held my head up again, and yet he – he just ignores it. Dangerous mind.
I already thought McCain was a slimeball, but this is truly shocking, even for him. He blew up for the Forrestal by screwing around, wasn’t tortured at all like he says he was, and even attacked civilian targets for fun. And to think, this man was almost President. Would he have been even worse than Obama?
Presidential pardon from Nixon saves John McCain from treason and collaboration charges according to Rolling Thunder Founder and 3 war veteran, John Holland….
Why nothing in the news…
Why no reports…..
Why was the truth kept from American during the election?
Read here … http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/07/18/trump-right-about-hanoi-john-mccain/
Westcoast , you Damn moron , there can only be one village idiot.
I’m with Paulo, I hate McCain, and he is no hero in my book, but the story is bogus. Bring the thumbs down!
know law or no law. reaperishere.weebly.com
i wondered when one of the sites i frequent would bring this up. Don’t know if this story is actually true or not, but it wouldn’t surprise me. One thing that is absolutely undeniable is his shameful treatment of POW/MIA family members once he was in the senate. I won’t hold his possible confessions to war crimes and propaganda tapes he made against him either, every man has his breaking point, and I have no idea what mine would be in those conditions. But he most certainly did sweep compelling evidence that we left peole behind under the rug, and led the charge at keeping the evidence classified. He fucking KNOWS we left people behind, and yet for some reason helped supress this info to protect the lying govt and himself.
Hearing him demand an apology from trump for ALL POWS makes me sick. Trump may be a loudmouthed jackass, but he hasnt spent the last few decades in the senate making sure this information never sees the light of day. If anyone owes POW/MIA families an apology, its john mccain
My sister’s husband is MIA. Shot down June 18, 1972.
Wikipedia is controlled by The Tribe like all Media is. Take all info from Wikipedia with a large grain of salt. Oh, and make sure the salt didn’t come from the Dead Sea.
My dad was drafted for the war, like many other dads were. He was a fat pudgy catholic church choir boy with 4 other brothers but he was the oldest. My pop tells me before being drafted he thought we was the shit, then somebody shot at him, for four years, he says without those Navy boys out there, I most likely wouldn’t be here and neither would you. He has a framed foto of McCain in his garage, I’m pretty sure if I tried to open his eyes, at 74, he might keel over or try and kick the shit outta me.
Westcoaster says:
Please let me underscore that McStain is a member of what political party? Oh yeah, the GOP. So although he’s a fuck, at the end of the day you guys support him.
—————–
Who are the “you guys” you refer to? Don’t assume, WC, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME.
Hmmm. John McCain was shot down in 1967 at around age 30, spent over 5 years of his life in North Vietnam as a POW, tortured, and repatriated on crutches. By that time, his marriage was in tatters and divorce was imminent, as were the marriages of many POWs.
Any volunteers on this site who’d like to include that in his/her biography?
IT IS NOT WHAT YOU DO BUT HOW YOU DO IT.
Why did Nixon pardon McCain for treason?
You have no proof that he was tortured. The injuries that he came home with were broken limbs, but they were caused by ejecting at fighter jet speed, without following his training instructions of keeping his arms and legs tight against his body, so the limbs wouldn’t be injured by hitting parts of the cockpit on the way out of the roof, after the bubble was blown off. Those ejection seats were basically rocket powered, and they got the pilot out quickly, as designed, but they caused a very violent escape from the aircraft. Many injuries of the pilot’s extremities happened during ejections, causing multiple broken and fractured arms and legs. Those injuries that McCain suffered came during his high speed ejection. There’s no evidence of him being tortured. Especially, once he provided any information that his captors asked for.
no use for the guy, more respect for calley. former pow author was hosting fellow hanoi hilton comrades, in walks mccain hardly acknowleedges the author and takes center stage. cspan from several years back
SSS says:
Hmmm. John McCain was shot down in 1967 at around age 30, spent over 5 years of his life in North Vietnam as a POW, tortured, and repatriated on crutches. By that time, his marriage was in tatters and divorce was imminent, as were the marriages of many POWs.
Any volunteers on this site who’d like to include that in his/her biography?
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and has spent the rest of his life exploiting it for profit and power. Contrast this to the brave but misguided George McGovern who flew a few dozen flights over Europe piloting a B24 but never bragged about it (or even mentioned it) during his campaign.
When I finally pass over, hope to be able to visit the Library of Truth, where I can finally read what actually happened in Dallas, 1963, the 911 incident, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Sarah Palin, and finally the USS Forrestal explosion.
For those equipped with Ouija Boards, I will report back
Old Mexican proverb,
“Just cuz you don’t understand something doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.” -annon
BTW, there are quite a few who have “passed over” (as in every soul ever born who ain’t alive) and like to hang out at the “Library of Truth” and since my Ouija Board is always well oiled and at the ready I’ll share some of my other-worldly revelations with you,
1) Mossad offed JFK over Dimona
2) 911 was an inside job
3) Santa Claus – a fairytale
4) Easter Bunny – a fairytale
5) Sarah Palin – (see 3&4 above)
6) USS Forrestal explosion, explained in the article
Hope that helps.
@Stucky: Thanks for the crown, fella, but you must admit what I said is true because at last glance McStain is still the “Senator from Arizona”. Dems sure as hell didn’t elect him, so who the fuck did?
I’m not saying the Dems don’t also have some crooks, scoundrels and thieves too, with Oblunder being #1. AND I admit I voted for him the 1st time, but that was against who? The SAME fucker we’re discussing in this post!!!!!
@Rise Up: Sorry I didn’t mean to offend you, just speaking to the majority of the monkeys.
@BB: Stop getting nervous and upset, I’ll let you keep the title, however I’ve noticed your comments are becoming more sane compared to a lot of the others who post here.
” … and repatriated on crutches …” ———- SSS
I regret that he wasn’t repatriated in a coffin.
Defending Shitstain …. unbelievable.
“Dems sure as hell didn’t elect him, so who the fuck did?” ———– Westcoaster
SSS, apparently.
Greetings,
None of us will ever know if McCain was responsible for the deaths of all of those sailors. Likewise, we’ll never know if his actions were honorable while he was in the hands of the N. Vietnamese. We can, though, judge him on his political record and so far as I can tell, he is a NeoCon of the worst kind. I do not know, exactly, whom he serves but it isn’t the American people. That is a fact.
He is a warmonger and as far as I’m concerned, a war criminal. They still put half ancient NAZI’s on trial, McCain isn’t too old for one himself.
Why did Nixon pardon McCain for treason?
I do not believe McCain was responsible for the Forrestal disaster. That said there is film of him climbing out of his A-4 and hopping down to the flight deck from the refueling probe on the nose of the aircraft. The A-4 is a small airplane and the distance from the probe to the carrier deck is only about 5 feet. I mention this because as others on the flight deck desperately tried to put the fires out and push the bomb laden aircraft over the side McCain made his way to the ships sick bay where he was also photographed laying comfortably in a hospital bed ( which you could imagine were in short supply from the carnage taking place on the flight and hanger decks). What McCain’s injuries were I don’t know. He may have sprained his ankle hopping down from his aircraft of even received some superficial burns ( he doesn’t appear to have suffered any severe disfiguring burns) but in an all hands on deck emergency to show up in sick bay with minor injuries is certainly not my idea of a hero thought it seems to meet John Kerry’s less restrictive conditions for a purple heart or silver star!
They still put half ancient NAZI’s on trial, McCain isn’t too old for one himself.
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Only Jews get away with that shit.
Fanapt.
Westcoaster says: @BB: Stop getting nervous and upset, I’ll let you keep the title, however I’ve noticed your comments are becoming more sane compared to a lot of the others who post here.
HST said, when the going gets weird, the weird go pro.
“His record as a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy was dismal. He piled up demerits left and right for breaking the rules, and barely passed his schoolwork, graduating 894th in a class of 899.
That might have been checked off to youthful rebellion. Plenty of kids spent their college years partying but then sobered up after they were slapped in the face by the reality of making it in the outside world. But after he left Annapolis, McCain continued to show the same attitude that had almost got him kicked out of the naval academy.
He barely passed flight school. And then he crashed two airplanes and damaged a third.The first crash took place during advanced flight training at Corpus Christi, Texas. According to McCain, the engine stalled while he was practicing landings. The plane fell into the water of the bay just off the airfield and knocked him unconscious. McCain woke up and somehow managed to get out of the cockpit and escaped serious injury. Investigators reported that they started the recovered engine without any problem, and their report left open the possibility of pilot error.
The next accident took place in Spain while McCain was assigned to an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea. He tried to fly his propeller-driven A-1 fighter-bomber under a row of pylon-supported electric power lines. This was a “hotdogging” stunt by U.S. pilots in Europe that had caused outrage. McCain’s plane hit and damaged the lines so badly that thousands of people lost power.
“My daredevil clowning had cut off electricity to a great many Spanish homes,” McCain wrote later, “and created a small international incident.”
In 1965, McCain flew a navy airplane to Philadelphia to attend the Army-Navy football game. On the way back to his base in Norfolk, Virginia, the plane’s engine quit, he said, so he bailed out. The plane crashed and was destroyed.
In the U.S. Navy, for a pilot to crash one plane was pushing it. To crash two often resulted in an official investigation to determine if he should be taken off flight status. How McCain got away with crashing two airplanes and smashing power lines in Spain was a mystery, although other pilots thought it had to do with his family connections.
McCain volunteered for Vietnam and was assigned to an A-4 bomber squadron on the USS Forrestal. He was soon to be 31 years old and held the rank of lieutenant commander, equal to that of army major. On the morning of July 29, 1967, McCain was sitting in the cockpit of his Skyhawk waiting to be launched by the ship’s catapult. Another plane accidentally set off a Zuni missile that hit the fuel tank of McCain’s A-4, touching off a fire that spread rapidly across the ship. McCain managed to escape injury, but 134 sailors died and many others were badly burned.
It was the worst U.S. Navy accident since World War Two and the fourth serious accident McCain had been involved in since becoming a pilot. His reputation for being a “hotdog”—a show-off pilot who broke the rules—led to rumors that McCain had caused the fire by trying to scare the pilot behind him by suddenly shooting flames out of his tail exhaust. There was no evidence McCain was at fault and the fire was ruled accidental. But the rumors persisted.”
http://www.pythiapress.com/wartales/McCain-Shootdown.htm
Great article! Read it. Sounds like all of McCain’s injuries resulted from his improper ejection from plane (not that I’d do better). You can see from the article that McCain tells half-truths, spins things in his favor. I hate people like that.
I noticed no one mentioned that McCain weighed in at 30 pounds more than his fellow POWs when they were released by the VC. I know I always gain weight when subjected to ‘torture and starvation’.
Anonymous – that was funny!
This is what is wrong with the world, too many people who don’t take the time to learn the truth. You are living in your own ignorant sadness.
Factcheck.org morons
Wasn’t McCain’s father somehow involved / in charge when the attack on the Liberty took place?
The basic problem with this article is it is contradicted by facts.
First- there is clear evidence- the flight deck was filmed- that the fire was caused by a Zuni rocket being fired from an F-4 John McCain was in an A-4 on the other side of the ship.
Next I have seen the claim made that the F-4 was behind John McCain- which was not the case McCain’s A-4’s tail was pointed towards the ocean the only way an F-4 was behind him would be if it was in flight but the video shows the F-4 was parked on the deck.
If you want to be critical of John McCain go after his congressional record, desire to start wars and things he actually did.
Sounds like McCain is pathological liar like hilery Clinton or pinnochio o Nama
Oh, so much quackery here.
1) McCain was in an A-4 Skyhawk, which DOES NOT have a afterburner. Therefore, he cannot have done a “Wet Start”, much less cook off the rocket with it. In fact, the only aircraft on the ship that had A/Bs were F-4 Phantom IIs, the tails of which were pointed over the starboard edge of the flight deck.
2) In fact, the accident was caused by a number of factors:
A) It was in part a malfunction of the ammunition’s safeties that sparked the disaster. The ammunition in question, was a Zuni missile on the aftmost of the F-4s.
B) It was also in part due to a wartime deciscion by Commanding officers to permit deck crew to connect the firing circuits to the armaments during preflight to prevent potentially fatal delays in launch and recovery ops.
C) A power surge when the pilot of said Phantom switched from the “Start-cart” to the onboard systems that triggered one of the missiles.
3) The missile ruptured and ignited the fuel tank of the Skyhawk NEXT TO McCain. This cooked off an aging, defective bomb that killed and/or incapacitated the flightdeck’s fire crew (including the chief who died when he recognized the risk and attempted to save his men) following this, the untrained crew tried to put out the fire using a combination of retardant foam and water. The water, however only served to spread the fire due to the difference in density between hydrocarbons (Fuel, oil, natural gas, etc.) and water.
It was, in fact, a failure of Naval Command that caused the accident, not John McCain.
Sources:
https://youtu.be/kPDg2UwGOmU (National Geographic, US Department of the Navy)
he was still a traitor for what happened when he was a prisoner.
Today is my brothers’ birthday…he died two years ago. He was the catapult officer on duty standing by John McCain’s aircraft when the explosion occurred. While he did not like McCain, having been in flight training with him, he never said anything about McCain starting the fire. All he talked about was the lose of lives and the super heroics of those who were on the deck. He did say that McCain lost no time in having his father take him off the Forrestal.
my dad was one of those heros and lived a sad life after that, he had nightmares of it and got cancer, he never had anything bad to say about his time in the navy, he never was treated as a hero either, i know the people left there went through alot to fight those fires and take care of the injured and dead, it was a sad time, i was i think 13 years old
This is really sad. The article is bogus with invented facts and vitriol substituted for substance. The actual story is that a Zuni missile launched accidentally from a Phantom fighter (because of ground crew defeating safety measures) struck an A4 on the other side of the flight deck causing the explosion and following inferno. John McCain, like him or not, was in an A4 adjacent to the A4 hit by the missile and had nothing to do with the sequence of events which lead to the deaths of 134 sailors.
What is ugly is seeing a factually incorrect “article” set off an explosion of character assassination and hatred. This brings to mind those wonderfully clear headed Puritans, who were also convinced, on scant evidence that those horrible “witches” just had to be burned.
NO SIR IT IS NOT: A camera on the deck recorded images showing that the Zuni rocket struck White’s plane. The Navy report later attributed the dropped bomb to White’s plane, although the film footage does not seem to establish this definitively. However, McCain has said many times that the Zuni rocket caused the bomb (two bombs in McCain’s version) to fall from his own craft.
Some of those who were on the Forrestal and other persons familiar with the ordnance told me that because the rocket did not hit McCain’s craft, only actions by the pilot could have caused any bomb to fall from McCain’s Skyhawk. These sources—who spoke under the condition that they not be publicly identified—agree with each other that, if any bomb fell from the McCain airplane, it was because of actions that he took either in error or panic upon seeing the fire on the deck or in his hasty exit from the plane. Two switches in the cockpit of a Skyhawk need to be thrown to drop such a bomb, according to the sources.
Whatever the circumstances of the fire’s origins, McCain did not stay on deck to help fight the blaze as the men around him did. With the firefighting crew virtually wiped out, men untrained in fighting fires had to pick up the fire hoses, rescue the wounded or frantically throw bombs and even planes over the ship’s side to prevent further tragedy. McCain left them behind and went down to the hangar-bay level, where he briefly helped crew members heave some bombs overboard. After that, he went to the pilot’s ready room and watched the fire on a television monitor hooked to a camera trained on the deck.
McCain has never been asked to explain why he claims that the Zuni rocket struck his plane. If a bomb or bombs subsequently fell from McCain’s plane as he has said, it seems to strongly suggests pilot error, and if a bomb or bombs did not fall from his plane, it suggests rash disregard for important facts in his accounts of the accident.
There is plenty more about this story that raises questions about McCain’s truthfulness and judgment. In the first hours after the fire, he apparently did not claim to have been injured. New York Times reporter R.W. Apple, who helicoptered out to the ship the day after the tragedy and sought out McCain as the “son and grandson of two noted admirals,” never mentioned him being wounded, although he reported on him more than on any other crew member. This would be an odd omission on Apple’s part if McCain indeed had been wounded, given that service wounds are usually highlighted in such reports during wartime. McCain’s own father, after seeing his son several weeks later, sent a letter to relatives and friends about the fire saying, “Happily for all of us, he [John] came through without a scratch.”2
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081007_investigating_john_mccains_tragedy_at_sea
my dad was on that ship when it happened, you give me some proof, this is not true, im very upset, my dad suffered alot because of this
The McCain story is total BS. There was no plane behind him and no way to shakeup the pilot behind him. I never liked the man. But no reason to make up lies about him.
Bill Shafer USS Saratoga CVA60
NO.. IT IS NOT BULL SHIT.A camera on the deck recorded images showing that the Zuni rocket struck White’s plane. The Navy report later attributed the dropped bomb to White’s plane, although the film footage does not seem to establish this definitively. However, McCain has said many times that the Zuni rocket caused the bomb (two bombs in McCain’s version) to fall from his own craft.
Some of those who were on the Forrestal and other persons familiar with the ordnance told me that because the rocket did not hit McCain’s craft, only actions by the pilot could have caused any bomb to fall from McCain’s Skyhawk. These sources—who spoke under the condition that they not be publicly identified—agree with each other that, if any bomb fell from the McCain airplane, it was because of actions that he took either in error or panic upon seeing the fire on the deck or in his hasty exit from the plane. Two switches in the cockpit of a Skyhawk need to be thrown to drop such a bomb, according to the sources.
Whatever the circumstances of the fire’s origins, McCain did not stay on deck to help fight the blaze as the men around him did. With the firefighting crew virtually wiped out, men untrained in fighting fires had to pick up the fire hoses, rescue the wounded or frantically throw bombs and even planes over the ship’s side to prevent further tragedy. McCain left them behind and went down to the hangar-bay level, where he briefly helped crew members heave some bombs overboard. After that, he went to the pilot’s ready room and watched the fire on a television monitor hooked to a camera trained on the deck.
McCain has never been asked to explain why he claims that the Zuni rocket struck his plane. If a bomb or bombs subsequently fell from McCain’s plane as he has said, it seems to strongly suggests pilot error, and if a bomb or bombs did not fall from his plane, it suggests rash disregard for important facts in his accounts of the accident.
There is plenty more about this story that raises questions about McCain’s truthfulness and judgment. In the first hours after the fire, he apparently did not claim to have been injured. New York Times reporter R.W. Apple, who helicoptered out to the ship the day after the tragedy and sought out McCain as the “son and grandson of two noted admirals,” never mentioned him being wounded, although he reported on him more than on any other crew member. This would be an odd omission on Apple’s part if McCain indeed had been wounded, given that service wounds are usually highlighted in such reports during wartime. McCain’s own father, after seeing his son several weeks later, sent a letter to relatives and friends about the fire saying, “Happily for all of us, he [John] came through without a scratch.”2
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081007_investigating_john_mccains_tragedy_at_sea
My sister’s husband was on the USS Saratoga! He was shot down June 18, 1972, MIA.
Someone should slam a plane into McCain… and the rest of those cocksuckers!
SORRY BUT YOU ARE DEAD WRONG: A camera on the deck recorded images showing that the Zuni rocket struck White’s plane. The Navy report later attributed the dropped bomb to White’s plane, although the film footage does not seem to establish this definitively. However, McCain has said many times that the Zuni rocket caused the bomb (two bombs in McCain’s version) to fall from his own craft.
Some of those who were on the Forrestal and other persons familiar with the ordnance told me that because the rocket did not hit McCain’s craft, only actions by the pilot could have caused any bomb to fall from McCain’s Skyhawk. These sources—who spoke under the condition that they not be publicly identified—agree with each other that, if any bomb fell from the McCain airplane, it was because of actions that he took either in error or panic upon seeing the fire on the deck or in his hasty exit from the plane. Two switches in the cockpit of a Skyhawk need to be thrown to drop such a bomb, according to the sources.
Whatever the circumstances of the fire’s origins, McCain did not stay on deck to help fight the blaze as the men around him did. With the firefighting crew virtually wiped out, men untrained in fighting fires had to pick up the fire hoses, rescue the wounded or frantically throw bombs and even planes over the ship’s side to prevent further tragedy. McCain left them behind and went down to the hangar-bay level, where he briefly helped crew members heave some bombs overboard. After that, he went to the pilot’s ready room and watched the fire on a television monitor hooked to a camera trained on the deck.
McCain has never been asked to explain why he claims that the Zuni rocket struck his plane. If a bomb or bombs subsequently fell from McCain’s plane as he has said, it seems to strongly suggests pilot error, and if a bomb or bombs did not fall from his plane, it suggests rash disregard for important facts in his accounts of the accident.
There is plenty more about this story that raises questions about McCain’s truthfulness and judgment. In the first hours after the fire, he apparently did not claim to have been injured. New York Times reporter R.W. Apple, who helicoptered out to the ship the day after the tragedy and sought out McCain as the “son and grandson of two noted admirals,” never mentioned him being wounded, although he reported on him more than on any other crew member. This would be an odd omission on Apple’s part if McCain indeed had been wounded, given that service wounds are usually highlighted in such reports during wartime. McCain’s own father, after seeing his son several weeks later, sent a letter to relatives and friends about the fire saying, “Happily for all of us, he [John] came through without a scratch.”2
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081007_investigating_john_mccains_tragedy_at_sea
I’ve personally seen an F/A-18C drop tank fall from the port wing station after there as an explosion on the starboard side of the aircraft. There was no pilot in the cockpit.
Can’t be true. How does flame/heat from a hot start travel to the opposite side of the flight deck when the ship is at speed to make wind over the bow to launch aircraft? Oh, forgot to mention McCain’s aircraft tail over water and pointed away from the aircraft that fired the rocket.
Holy shit, just holy shit…that is big kill number for US Navy pilot…of US Navy personnel.
Im very upset reading that mccain was on this ship and may of caused the fire, my dad was on that ship at the time, he just came into the hall from the kitchen when it blew up behind him, he had to throw bodies and pieces of bodies over board, he was told by the captain to jump off the ship, he looked over the side ,saw many sharks and big snakes and said he would die on board instead, my dad had nightmares for years, and he ended up with cancer and died in 1981, he said that the fire and problem started from a plane throwing a spark and that the bombs fell from the plane and the bombs blew up, i dont remember anything else, i just had to watch the last of my dads years dieing and suffering, to think mccain was the cause of this, makes me very mad, i will not say what i really want done to him, but i wish him a very painful death when his time comes, hes a traitor and people need to quit acting as if hes so great, he rides on the tail coats of family, he has no honor, he stood and did nothing to help fight fires or carry bodies, while my dad had too, I am sick of those in government who have done harm to our military and done nothing good for them, I wish evil on them, yes I beleive in god and yes, i know i am to forgive, but i cant, cause my dad suffered and they that lived through this, got blamed that they didnt know how to control the fire, destroying the ship, it wasnt my dads fault, it was this mccain, how disgusted i am to read about this, not knowing all these years.
First things first. I do NOT like John McCain. He was an asshole in the Navy and he’s an asshole now. That being said, this story is bogus. The truth of the matter is that on occasion things made by man fail. In order for McCain to fire that Zuni rocket he would’ve had to select Master Armament ON, Select Rockets, Select Single, select the station that the rocket pod was mounted on (either 1 or 3), have an Aviation Ordnance go into the wheel well and hit a bypass switch, than McCain would have had to push the firing switch. You cannot fire a rocket on the deck accidently. When the landing gear is down the armament system is safed.
That being said, prior to connecting a rocket pod to an aircraft, an Aviation Ordnanceman must run a stray voltage test with a meter to ensure that there the electrical circuit to the rocket pod is NOT energized. It is, as yet, unclear whether this took place. The rocket was fired by stray voltage which is, in fact, a mechanical failure of the aircraft system and the pilot has absolutely nothing to do with it.
At the time of this incident I was an Aviation Ordnanceman Second Class stationed at NAS Lemoore, CA and was an instructor on the Armament Systems of the A-4C and A-4E aircraft.
Jim “Gunner” Doran
CWO4, USN (RET)