McCain prone to mishaps as Navy pilot: report

[barnabas63]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081006/ts_alt_afp/usvotemccainpilot_081006134935;_ylt=AmGKshfM3.sT0XIN1e9HBDapg9IF


LOS ANGELES (AFP) - 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.

.....in Texas in 1960, he slammed into Corpus Christi Bay and sheared the skin off his plane's wings.

....In another incident, McCain was "clowning" around in a Skyraider over southern Spain about December 1961 and flew into electrical wires, causing a blackout in the area, the paper noted.

....In 1965, McCain crashed a T-2 trainer jet in Virginia, and after he was sent to Vietnam, his plane was destroyed in an explosion on the deck of an aircraft carrier in 1967, the report said.

The Times said it had interviewed men who served with McCain and located the 1960s-era accident reports and professional evaluations. "This examination of his record revealed a pilot who early in his career was cocky, occasionally cavalier and prone to testing limits," the paper concluded.

It reminded that in today's military, a lapse in judgment that causes a crash can end a pilot's career.

[Essene]

1. (lol)

[NJmaverick]

2. It was the same way back then. His pilot career would have ended

if not for a powerful daddy and legendary grand pappy.

[Essene]

3. a better source link...

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gira3krUmnRmrh18WGOQaGEKC6Bw

[SoonerPride]

4. Senator McCain, why do you hate our planes?

:rofl:

[baldguy]

5. "Prone to mishaps" is an understatement.

He's an ace in the North Vietnamese Air Force.

[Frustratedlady]

6. He was cocky, reckless and arrogant.

I suppose you need a little of that, but he overdid it.

He still is cocky, reckless and arrogant. Why would anyone want him "flying their plane" today? He will wreck our country as he did his planes.