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Old 06-25-2008
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Re: Right Wing Media Myth #2: John McCain has Military Experience

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Originally Posted by ThorHammer 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.
Most pilots are grounded when they lose aircraft even when it isn't their fault... a pilot with four star admirals as father and grandfather, was not... do you see any preferential treatment here?

I do.
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