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March 12, 1960: During an advanced training flight in Texas, he crashed his AD-6 Skyraider in Corpus Christi Bay.
โข December 1961: During a training mission in southern Spain, McCain flew into electrical wires. He flew the damaged Skyraider back to the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier dragging 10 feet of wire and having severed an oil line.
Nov. 28, 1965: While flying a T-2 trainer jet returning to Mississippi from the Army-Navy football game he attended in Philadelphia, McCain heard an explosion in his engine and lost power. He ejected at 1,000 feet and the plane crashed into a clump of trees on Virginiaโs Eastern Shore
July 29, 1967 USS Forrestal
A fire on a United States Navy carrier stationed off the coast of Vietnam kills 134 service members on this day in 1967. The deadly fire on the USS Forrestal began with the accidental launch of a rocket.
Oct. 26, 1967: On his 23rd bombing mission over Vietnam, McCainโs A-4 Skyhawk jet was hit by a surface-to-air missile about 3,000 feet above Hanoi. A then-secret report by McCainโs squadron said aviators had learned to fly at 4,000 to 10,000 feet, to avoid missiles, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Where didn't he crash.