Truth is elusive. What are your sources?
Truth is elusive to people who don’t have any experience or knowledge of a matter, and have to depend on the Internet to obtain knowledge.
I have in-depth professional experience and personally related knowledge of the situation. I can explain to you as a courtesy since you are a Freeper and I assume you want the truth, but I have explained it in depth so many times on here (as have others) that it is simply redundant.
My sources are the training I received in the Navy that was based upon what happened on the Forrestal.
Also....I saw a very long movie made from live filming of the actual catastrophe.
Prior to the Forrestal catastophe the wiring on ships and missiles was not isulated in a manner that shielded stray RF (radio frequency) transmissions.
As more and more RF was put in use you ended up with equipment that ran at similar frequencies and in the forrestal case....a stray RF signal that was close enough to the “hot” Zoomie (Zuni) missile’s launch signal made its way into the missile and it launched across the deck and struck the plane drectly adjacent to McStain’s aircraft.
McStain did not contribute to this explosion in any way.
The trained firefighting deck crews were killed or blown overboard early.
The lessons learned included changing how they insulate for and protect against stray RF, some ordinance handling changes on carrier decks, and of vital importance was the inculcating of advanced firefighting techniques across the fleet and beginning in boot camp.
The crew members who races to put out the fires on the flight deck after the initial crews were killed or blown overboars in the ordinance explosions were nit fighting the fires properly.
For jet fuel and fuel oil fires you lay down a layer of firefighting foam which then blankets the fuel and smothers the fire.
Some crew wer doing this and others were pouring water on the fire which was washing the foam overboard.
So the blanket of foam was gone and the fuel burned on top of the water.....so eveytime they would make progress they then washed away what they needed.
Also...the water washed fuel oil into the lower decks as it soread through the now gaping holes that the bombs cooking off created.
McStain can not be held accountable or reaponsible for any of these facts.
I can still here the voice if the Forrestal’s captain as he addressed his crew over the ships public address system (the “1MC” ships address system) during the battle to save the ship. He was in co trol and gave clear and calm orders to the crew....which I bet if any if the crew members were asked today they would tell us made them bith understand tjey were fighting for their lives and that they could win.
McStain has plenty if things we can hate him for....I won’t blame him for something he is not responsible for...especially when it resulted in so many deaths and life changing injuries.