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To: longnshort who wrote (116303)	10/7/2008 6:52:15 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 132070

this article says he crashed twice in the military (he also crashed a civilian plane, making three planes crashed by the guy in the bottom 1% of his class)... latimes.com John McCain was training in his AD-6 Skyraider on an overcast Texas morning in 1960 when he slammed into Corpus Christi Bay and sheared the skin off his plane's wings. McCain recounted the accident decades later in his autobiography. "The engine quit while I was practicing landings," he wrote. But an investigation board at the Naval Aviation Safety Center found no evidence of engine failure. The 23-year-old junior lieutenant wasn't paying attention and erred in using "a power setting too low to maintain level flight in a turn," investigators concluded. The crash was one of three early in McCain's aviation career in which his flying skills and judgment were faulted or questioned by Navy officials. In his most serious lapse, McCain was "clowning" around in a Skyraider over southern Spain about December 1961 and flew into electrical wires, causing a blackout, according to McCain's own account as well as those of naval officers and enlistees aboard the carrier Intrepid. In another incident, in 1965, McCain crashed a T-2 trainer jet in Virginia. you have every right to grasp at your ignorance like white grasps onto rice, but stop spreading lies.

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