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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
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John "Crash" McPlane
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6:05 AM
McCain prone to mishaps as Navy pilot: report
US presidential hopeful John McCain was prone to mistakes during his time as a Navy pilot, and if today's standards were applied, his career may have ended in a hard landing, according to a report Monday by The Los Angeles Times.
The newspaper said that when McCain was training in his AD-6 Skyraider in Texas in 1960, he slammed into Corpus Christi Bay and sheared the skin off his plane's wings. In his autobiography, McCain said the crash had occurred because "the engine quit," but an investigation board at the Naval Aviation Safety Center found no evidence of engine failure, the report said.
Instead investigators concluded that the 23-year-old junior lieutenant was not paying attention and erred in using "a power setting too low to maintain level flight in a turn."
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, The Times said.
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The Rolling Stone article touches on this, too. Any other pilot would have lost his wings, but little Johnny was well connected and actually benefited from his failures. Just like Bush.
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I don't know Air Force rules in detail but I know the military and anyone that crashes five times probably got 3 more than would end most peoples flying careers. Even if they were shot out from under you, after the first or second you're supposed to get good at avoiding getting shot down. He's just Bush that didn't run out on the program. Think about it, Bush well very likely be dead if he'd kept flying....ah, 20/20 hindsight hurts.
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at 8:52 PM |
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