re: #436 Gus

Completely agree. McCain was a lot of things, but he wasn’t a poor pilot. You can’t be a bad pilot and still be carrier qualified. At the same time, while it was his plane that had the malfunction resulting in the Forrestal fire disaster, it wasn’t his fault. An electrical malfunction traced back to how the fleet was arming Zunis was a contributing factor and when the malfunction launched the Zuni into another armed A-4, the older bomb loads detonated from the high temps killing the first responding firefighters who had no idea that they had half the time they thought they did to get the bombs cooled off.