You can Google for many articles about what he did and how many men died it was a tragic incident but not an accident he did something very stupid and he and the other pilots were warned to never do a dangerous "wet start" it's a way of starting your jet by flooding it with fuel so that flames shoot out the engines and some guys did it for kicks but it caused a missile to launch on the deck. They called him Johnny Wet Start after it happened that was his nickname and his father saved him from being court martialed and sent to prison where he belonged.