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Re: Right Wing Media Myth #2: John McCain has Military Experience

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Originally Posted by TheStripey1 View Post
Again, those incidents do not paint the picture of an incompetent pilot. Of those 5 "crashes" you brought up (and that are reference in that site) only 3 are actually crashes: two owing to mechanical failure, and one to enemy fire. Of the other two: he clipped a power line while flying low (but didn't crash), and for the other he was sitting in his aircraft on the flight deck when ANOTHER aircraft had a malfunction and discharged rockets into this plane.
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