McCain was a playboy drunk half his life! He would have been booted if not for the influence of his daddy and grandaddy who were ADMIRALS.
'Risk-taker, daredevil': John McCain joked about his Navy flight record. He crashed three times
He crashed a couple of planes, one while training and one while flying on a personal trip. And he narrowly avoided catastrophe after snagging electrical wires while “clowning” over Spain.
McCain's aviation mishaps
• March 12, 1960: During an advanced training flight in Texas, he crashed his AD-6 Skyraider in Corpus Christi Bay. A helicopter fished him out of the water about 150 yards from shore. "The engine quit while I was practicing landings," McCain wrote in his 1999 memoir "Faith of My Fathers." "I barely managed to get the canopy open and swim to the surface."
But an investigation board at the Naval Aviation Safety Center found no evidence of engine failure and said McCain lost track of his altitude and speed while preoccupied with cockpit instruments, according to the report reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.
• December 1961: During a training mission in southern Spain, McCain flew into electrical wires. He flew the damaged Skyraider back to the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier dragging 10 feet of wire and having severed an oil line.
Robert Timberg, a former Baltimore Sun reporter who wrote the book "Nightingale's Song" about McCain and other veterans, said a spate of newspaper stories about power failures blamed on the son of an admiral.
"My daredevil clowning had cut off electricity to a great many Spanish homes and created a small international incident," McCain wrote in his memoir.
• Nov. 28, 1965: While flying a T-2 trainer jet returning to Mississippi from the Army-Navy football game he attended in Philadelphia, McCain heard an explosion in his engine and lost power. He ejected at 1,000 feet and the plane crashed into a clump of trees on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
A Naval Aviation Safety Center report found the accident resulted from a failure or malfunction of “an undetermined component of the engine,” according to the Los Angeles Times.
Oct. 26, 1967: On his 23rd bombing mission over Vietnam, McCain’s A-4 Skyhawk jet was hit by a surface-to-air missile about 3,000 feet above Hanoi .
A then-secret report by McCain’s squadron said aviators had learned to fly at 4,000 to 10,000 feet, to avoid missiles , . At least 15 missiles were fired at the squadron that day, according to the official summary reviewed by FactCheck.org.
"I knew I should roll out and fly evasive maneuvers, 'jinking,' in fliers' parlance, when I heard the tone" of Vietnamese radar locking onto his plane, McCain wrote in his memoir. But instead he continued his bombing run until his right wing was blown off.
TOLD TO FLY AT 4,000, MAVERICK MCCAIN CHOSE TO DISOBEY AND FLY AT 3,000 FT.
McCain was “a risk-taker and a daredevil.
JOHN MCCAIN WAS A LYING LOSER!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/...119237002/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/...119237002/
'Risk-taker, daredevil': John McCain joked about his Navy flight record. He crashed three times
He crashed a couple of planes, one while training and one while flying on a personal trip. And he narrowly avoided catastrophe after snagging electrical wires while “clowning” over Spain.
McCain's aviation mishaps
• March 12, 1960: During an advanced training flight in Texas, he crashed his AD-6 Skyraider in Corpus Christi Bay. A helicopter fished him out of the water about 150 yards from shore. "The engine quit while I was practicing landings," McCain wrote in his 1999 memoir "Faith of My Fathers." "I barely managed to get the canopy open and swim to the surface."
But an investigation board at the Naval Aviation Safety Center found no evidence of engine failure and said McCain lost track of his altitude and speed while preoccupied with cockpit instruments, according to the report reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.
• December 1961: During a training mission in southern Spain, McCain flew into electrical wires. He flew the damaged Skyraider back to the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier dragging 10 feet of wire and having severed an oil line.
Robert Timberg, a former Baltimore Sun reporter who wrote the book "Nightingale's Song" about McCain and other veterans, said a spate of newspaper stories about power failures blamed on the son of an admiral.
"My daredevil clowning had cut off electricity to a great many Spanish homes and created a small international incident," McCain wrote in his memoir.
• Nov. 28, 1965: While flying a T-2 trainer jet returning to Mississippi from the Army-Navy football game he attended in Philadelphia, McCain heard an explosion in his engine and lost power. He ejected at 1,000 feet and the plane crashed into a clump of trees on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
A Naval Aviation Safety Center report found the accident resulted from a failure or malfunction of “an undetermined component of the engine,” according to the Los Angeles Times.
Oct. 26, 1967: On his 23rd bombing mission over Vietnam, McCain’s A-4 Skyhawk jet was hit by a surface-to-air missile about 3,000 feet above Hanoi .
A then-secret report by McCain’s squadron said aviators had learned to fly at 4,000 to 10,000 feet, to avoid missiles , . At least 15 missiles were fired at the squadron that day, according to the official summary reviewed by FactCheck.org.
"I knew I should roll out and fly evasive maneuvers, 'jinking,' in fliers' parlance, when I heard the tone" of Vietnamese radar locking onto his plane, McCain wrote in his memoir. But instead he continued his bombing run until his right wing was blown off.
TOLD TO FLY AT 4,000, MAVERICK MCCAIN CHOSE TO DISOBEY AND FLY AT 3,000 FT.
McCain was “a risk-taker and a daredevil.
JOHN MCCAIN WAS A LYING LOSER!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/...119237002/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/...119237002/
