Posted on 01/10/2017 7:50:40 AM PST by Revski
This memorial of the USS Forrestal,CVA 59; it will be 50 years ago this July 29-Th; has actual pictures and the voice of Captain John K. Beling at the time of the fires.
I believe this has been posted already. I think I saw it a few days ago.
Is it accompanied by singing parrots?
We used to call it the USS Zippo.
I was in the Navy. It was USA Forest Fire.
The film of the Forrestal fire was required watching many years ago when going through Damage Control training.....
Was this the one McCain’s plane started?................
When I went to boot camp in 1998, we watched this. I would bet a lot of money, they still do.
...some very brave souls passed on that flight deck that day. Running towards cooking explosives
IS NOT RATIONAL.
Required watching in 1986-1992....as of 2009 I heard it was still required viewing
McCain’s account of the incident is quite sketchy. His own plane dropped 1000lb bombs.
It was do to stray electronic emissions getting into a poorly insulated electronic system on a zoomie rocket that was armed in a plane on deck.
I believe McCain was on deck but I don’t think it was a rocket on his plane.
Bad training I guess....some guys putting the fire retardant foam down and others washing it away with water....that’s why they made us watch the video.
Yeah....experience is a great educator.
Was this the one McCain’s plane started?................
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Supposedly the rocket came from another plane, not McCains.
The Forrestal Disaster, July 29, 1967
At the time of this incident Lt. Cdr. McCain already had flown several bombing missions over
North Vietnam from the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal. As he was in his A-4 Skyhawk, loaded
with two, 1,000-pound bombs and waiting on the carrier deck for his turn to launch, a Zuni
missile accidentally fired from another aircraft, swooshed across the carrier deck and
struck either McCain’s plane or one next to it.
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/09/mccains-plane-crashes/
I was with the 408th MMS ( munitions sqdn) @ Ubon in 69...spend my entire hitch (5 yrs active) dealing with ammo...transport..loading...maintaining...seen some crazy shit back then....in “69” the mission was tops...safety ranked about 4th...*smiles*
I bet his pants did, too!...................
The rocket came from across the flight deck from another aircraft near the superstructure. McCain’s A4 was stage close to the aft end of the flight deck. The rocket actually hit the A4 staged next to McCain’s.
Yes. McStain was a wet start Ahole then just like he was one of the Keating Five and a war provocateur now.
McCain’s whole life has been propelled by poor judgment.
Other accounts aren't. It was the plane next to McCain that was hit and which dropped the bombs.
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