[Anyone] Helping Remember McCain

[Thos Myers]

Actually mclame crashed 4 jets, and this one mentioned below was indeed
shot down.

Looks like number 4 wasn't really his fault- he was just in the way.

www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/cin_mccain_lost_five_u.htm


McCain III lost jet number one in 1958 when he plunged into Corpus Christi
Bay while practicing landings. He was knocked unconscious by the impact
coming to as the plane settled to the bottom.

McCain's second crash occurred while he was deployed in the Mediterranean.
"Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula," Timberg wrote, "he took out
some power lines [reminiscent of the 1998 incident in which a Marine Corps
jet sliced through the cables of a gondola at an Italian ski resort,
killing 20] which led to a spate of newspaper stories in which he was
predictably identified as the son of an admiral."

McCain's third crash three occurred when he was returning from flying a
Navy trainer solo to Philadelphia for an Army-Navy football game.

Timberg reported that McCain radioed, "I've got a flameout" and went
through standard relight procedures three times before ejecting at one
thousand feet. McCain landed on a deserted beach moments before the plane
slammed into a clump of trees.

McCain's fourth aircraft loss occurred July 29, 1967, soon after he was
assigned to the USS Forrestal as an A-4 Skyhawk pilot. While seated in the
cockpit of his aircraft waiting his turn for takeoff, an accidently fired
rocket slammed into McCain's plane. He escaped from the burning aircraft,
but the explosions that followed killed 134 sailors, destroyed at least 20
aircraft, and threatened to sink the ship.

McCain's fifth loss happened during his 23rd mission over North Vietnam on
Oct. 26, 1967, when McCain's A-4 Skyhawk was shot down by a surface-to-air
missile. McCain ejected from the plane breaking both arms and a leg in the
process and subsequently parachuted into Truc Bach Lake near Hanoi.







On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, J Mac wrote:

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> Did McCain actually run his airplane into the ground, as you imply here, or was he shot down?
> These are actually two entirely different circumstances, you know.
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> Cheers,
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> John McL.
> Taos
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> totem at laplaza.org said:
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> > Seems mccain can't remember how many houses he owns.  How can we expect him to run the
> > country other than to run it into the ground as he did his airplane in Viet Nam?
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