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He didn't follow procedure. At All. That's how he injured his arm, too, from hitting trees on the way down.
Thorough piece (snipped bigly)
The Day John McCain Got Shot Down
He barely passed flight school. And then he crashed two airplanes and damaged a third. “My daredevil clowning had cut off electricity to a great many Spanish homes,” McCain wrote later, “and created a small international incident.”
In the U.S. Navy, for a pilot to crash one plane was pushing it. How McCain got away with crashing two airplanes and smashing power lines in Spain was a mystery, although other pilots thought it had to do with his family connections.
By his own admission, then, McCain failed to follow instructions in combat. He did not try to evade the missile. Moreover, the pilots who were flying near him, one of them with a handheld camera, said he was not hit by a SAM. He had flown too low and was brought down by a barrage of antiaircraft fire. Since a SAM exploded in a bright orange fireball visible for miles around, it was unlikely that they had called it wrong. And since official navy records listed John McCain as downed by AAA fire, they were puzzled by why he later insisted in his political campaigns that it was a SAM.
As other pilots saw it, John McCain, quite simply, had got himself shot down. But McCain also made another error in the next four to six seconds after he was hit. He failed to use the proper procedure he had been taught for ejecting. As a result, he injured himself critically, breaking both arms and his right leg.
Actually, as the Vietnam Government and an American veteran living in Hanoi confirmed years later, Mai Van On, 49, a Hanoi resident, ran from the safety of his bomb shelter and with the help of a neighbor tossed two bamboo poles in the water and swam out to rescue McCain…
McCain was candid, though, in admitting that the injuries caused by his ejection, particularly his broken knee, drove him to try to bargain with his prison interrogators. He told them he would give them information if they took him to a hospital… He signed and made taped statements that could be used as propaganda against the United States of America.
—(1969 “Tokyo Rose” Propaganda Recording Released - Aug 4th 2016 https://youtu.be/69TmPOanfn0 )—
…as he put it in Faith of My Fathers: —“I also suspected that my treatment was less harsh than might be accorded other prisoners. This I attributed to my father’s position, and the propaganda value the Vietnamese placed on possessing me, injured but alive. Later, my suspicion was confirmed when I heard accounts of other POWs’ experiences during their first interrogations…—
Ironically, John McCain became the beneficiary of his own mistakes as a pilot when his political career took off. —He continued to claim that he had been shot down by a surface-to-air missile, when the official record said he had been downed by antiaircraft fire.— “I guess the SAM sounds better but I think it is a moot point,” said a pilot who served with McCain.
On the day they were both shot down, Chuck Rice was as shocked and as scared as John McCain. His plane was damaged in the same way and at the same time. Yet Rice had figured out under tremendous pressure how to eject without getting himself killed or injured. Just as most other pilots had figured it out when they were shot down. It left a question: Why wasn’t LCDR John S. McCain, 31, able to put himself in the proper position to eject like LTJG Charles D. Rice, 24, who had much less flying experience?
Another public misperception arose concerning McCain’s refusal of an early release offered to him by the North Vietnamese. In reality, John McCain was not the singular POW who, as Time magazine wrote, “languished in prison in Hanoi for years rather than accept a release he considered dishonorable.”
In fact, McCain, as part of a still functioning U.S. military chain of command, had three choices… -But McCain knew that Air Force Colonel Ted Guy was his senior ranking officer during the time he spent at a prison camp called the Plantation. -McCain did not ask Guy for permission to accept an early release, and may not have been aware of his SRO’s attitude. But the point was that, under the military system, Air Force Colonel Guy had the authority to decide whether Navy Lieutenant Commander McCain could accept an early release—not McCain himself. So McCain’s personal struggle over the decision, which he described with such emotional detail in his book, was irrelevant to the true situation, unless he had chosen to violate regulations and put himself at risk for future censure. https://archive.is/GdAMS
http://www.pythiapress.com/wartales/McCain-Shootdown.htm
VID embedded: (noname's) 1969 “Tokyo Rose” Propaganda Recording Released - Aug 4th 2016
https://youtu.be/69TmPOanfn0
More noname:
https://theintercept.com/2017/07/27/john-mccain-fake-maverick-horrible-record/