Re: => John McCain LIES on his Navy Record <= typical lying Repugnikkkan !!

genie wrote:
> On Oct 7, 12:54 am, "Reality_Check©" <Real...@Check.it> wrote:
>> genie wrote:
>>> On Oct 6, 3:36 pm, "Reality_Check©" <Real...@Check.it>
wrote:
>>>> Reality_Check© wrote:
>>>>> McCain lies on his Navy record
>>
>>>>> "I crashed a plane in Corpus Christi Bay one Saturday morning.
The
>>>>> engine quit while I was practicing landings...I took a few
>>>>> painkillers and hit the sack to rest my aching back for a few
>>>>> hours....I was out carousing, injured back and all, later that
>>>>> evening. --John McCain, "Faith of My Fathers."
>>
>>>>> Controversy has surrounded a series of crashes involving planes
>>>>> piloted by John McCain while serving in the U.S. Navy. In his
>>>>> autobiography, the Republican presidential candidate maintained
>>>>> that a couple of the accidents were caused by engine failure. But
>>>>> an official investigation by the Naval Aviation Safety Center
>>>>> makes clear that the first accident, in March 1960, was caused
>>>>> exclusively by pilot error.
>>>>> The Facts
>>>>> During the course of his flying career with the U.S. Navy, John
>>>>> McCain was involved in at least five major mishaps or crashes
>>>>> involving his plane. The most dramatic incidents occurred in 1967.
>>>>> He barely escaped with his life after a missile exploded aboard an
>>>>> aircraft carrier, the USS Forrestal, in July of that year, killing
>>>>> 134 of his fellow crew members. In October, McCain was shot down
>>>>> over Vietnam by a surface-to-air missile.
>>>>> U.S. Navy records make clear that no blame can be attached to
>>>>> McCain for either of these incidents. McCain was awarded the
>>>>> Distinguished Flying Cross on his return from Vietnam and cited
>>>>> for his "superb airmanship" in the abortive raid on the
power
>>>>> plant in Hanoi that ended with his capture and imprisonment by
>>>>> the North Vietnamese.
>>
>>>>> Mystery has surrounded the precise circumstances of the three
>>>>> earlier incidents, and particularly an accident on March 12, 1960,
>>>>> while McCain was still in flight school at Corpus Christi in
>>>>> Texas. The McCain campaign has either ignored or failed to
>>>>> respond to requests by The Washington Post and other news
>>>>> organizations for the release of the candidate's full military
>>>>> records, which could shed light on the accidents and the pilot's
>>>>> personal involvement.
>>
>>>>> The official Navy report into the Corpus Christi accident on March
>>>>> 12, 1960, concludes that the AD-6 Skyraider trainer crashed
>>>>> because McCain failed to "maintain an airspeed above the stall
>>>>> speed." It attributed the accident to "the preoccupation
of the
>>>>> pilot coupled with a power setting too low to maintain level
>>>>> flight." The single-engine prop plane sank to the bottom of
>>>>> Corpus Christi Bay. McCain was rescued by a helicopter after
>>>>> swimming to the surface.
>>
>>>>> The accident report excluded a series of other possible factors,
>>>>> including engine failure and disorientation of the pilot due to
>>>>> vertigo. It recorded pilot error as "the sole contributing
factor"
>>>>> to the accident. A copy of the report was obtained by The
>>>>> Washington Post from the Democratic National Committee, which
>>>>> conducted research at the Naval Historical Center in Washington.
>>>>> McCain's responsibility for the accident was first reported by
>>>>> the Los Angeles Times here.
>>
>>>>> McCain had another accident with a T-2 trainer jet in November
>>>>> 1965, while flying between New York City and Norfolk, Va. The
>>>>> Naval Aviation Safety Center was unable to determine the precise
>>>>> cause of the accident or the degree of pilot error. McCain wrote
>>>>> later that his engine "flamed out" and he had to eject.
>>
>>>>> In his autobiography, McCain recalls another mishap around
>>>>> December 1961 when "I knocked down some power lines while
flying
>>>>> too low over southern Spain. My daredevil clowning had cut off
>>>>> electricity to a great many Spanish homes and created a small
>>>>> international incident." He landed his Skyraider back on the
USS
>>>>> Intrepid after the incident, which does not appear to have
>>>>> triggered a safety investigation.
>>
>>>>> The Pinocchio Test
>>
>>>>> McCain's claim that he crashed into Corpus Christi Bay in December
>>>>> 1960 after his "engine quit" is a considerable stretch.
U.S. Navy
>>>>> Safety records make clear that the plane crashed because his power
>>>>> setting was too low and he was failing to pay sufficient attention
>>>>> to his landing pattern.- Hide quoted text -
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>>>> - Show quoted text -
>>
>>> How many planes did Obama pilot?
>>
>> He's not running for Pilot in Chief, jackass.
>>
>> Now go vote for Crash McCain ... LOL!-
>
>
> Oh, I see. I guess Obama getting a BJ by gay men in a limo is much
> riskier than being a pilot in the Vietnam war.

He sure helped the North Vietnamese win, with his continual failed missions,
crashing U$ aircraft, and making dozens of anti-American radio propaganda
broadcasts over the years.

Perhaps it was his wife Cindy's fault, eh? http://www.McCunt.org
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