An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise kills 27 people in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on January 14, 1969. A rocket accidentally detonated, destroying 15 planes and injuring more than 300 people.
The Enterprise was the first-ever nuclear-powered aircraft carrier when it was launched in 1960. It has eight nuclear reactors, six more than all subsequent nuclear carriers. The massive ship is over 1,100 feet long and carries 4,600 crew members.
At 8:19 a.m. on January 14, a MK-32 Zuni rocket that was loaded on an F-4 Phantom jet overheated due to the exhaust from another vehicle. The rocket blew up, setting off a chain reaction of explosions. Fires broke out across the deck of the ship, and when jet fuel flowed into the carrier’s interior, other fires were sparked. Many of the Enterprise’s fire-protection features failed to work properly, but the crew worked heroically and tirelessly to extinguish the fire.
In all, 27 sailors lost their lives and another 314 were seriously injured. Although 15 aircraft (out of the 32 stationed on the Enterprise at the time) were destroyed by the explosions and fire, the Enterprise itself was never threatened.
The USS Enterprise was repaired over several months at Pearl Harbor and returned to action later in the year.
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The article you posted failed to show how the incident regarding McCain caused his life to turn around and for him to become one of the most effective, celebrated and loved politicians of our time.
…………………………………………..don’t worry, I’m slitting my own wrists for the BS I just wrote.
“We be missin some context here…”
“…A rocket accidentally detonated,…” “…due to the exhaust from another vehicle. ” Well, the term exhaust is taking some latitude when one learns that the exhaust was an ignited “wet start”. (Thus McCain’s moniker: Johnny Wetstart)
I believe that his nickname shortly later became “Songbird”…
In related news…Captain Kirk and that fag Sulu were the sole survivors…unless you count that other fag…Checkov.
Only the good die young.
Look out, Abigail! I’m comin’ for YOU! Stucky too apparently. Records WILL fall!
McStain’s first big mistake was to “wet start” his aircrafts engine…his affair with Lindsey Graham and the birth of their daughter Liz Cheney was an even bigger clusterfcuk.
January 14, 1969, A day which will live in comedy.
On this date, The United States Navy attacked the United States Navy in a sneak attack on the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.