CanyonAg77 said:
milner79 said:
schmellba99 said:
Gaw617 said:
You can respect McCain for his service and admire him for surviving as a POW and think he was a complete fraud as a politician. Those are mutually exclusive.
There is a reason why McCain was not liked by those that were POW's with him.
He also killed 134 sailors and nearly sank the USS Forrestal when he fired a missle off on deck and it ignighted the jet fuel storage.
Yep.
Nope
McCain was a POS who only lacked one plane crash to become an enemy ace. No need to assign false claims, he broke plenty of planes, but not this one
Yes he did break some planes.
McCain's mishaps in the cockpitquotes from the article
- John McCain was training in his AD-6 Skyraider on an overcast Texas morning in 1960 when he slammed into Corpus Christi Bay and sheared the skin off his plane's wings.
McCain recounted the accident decades later in his autobiography. "The engine quit while I was practicing landings," he wrote. But an investigation board at the Naval Aviation Safety Center found no evidence of engine failure.(insert: & he lied in his book, very Biden like) - In his most serious lapse, McCain was "clowning" around in a Skyraider over southern Spain about December 1961 and flew into electrical wires, causing a blackout, according to McCain's own account as well as those of naval officers and enlistees aboard the carrier Intrepid. In another incident, in 1965, McCain crashed a T-2 trainer jet in Virginia.
- "Three mishaps are unusual," said Michael L. Barr, a former Air Force pilot with 137 combat missions in Vietnam and an internationally known aviation safety expert who teaches in USC's Aviation Safety and Security Program. "After the third accident, you
If not for his famous father he probably would have been washed out.
My father did his flight training in North Carolina, one of the pilots broke formation to buzz his girlfriend and was summarily washed out and he didn't even cras his plane.
McCain was a spoiled brat with a dad that had connections.
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