Isn there information indicating the rocket hit another plane on the Forrestal, not John McCains?
Parts of the Navy’s report indicate that the the rocket hit the plane of Fred White, another pilot near John McCain, but there is ample evidence to suggest that the report is in error. Multiple eyewitnesses and the film footage of the fire indicate that the rocket hit McCain’s plane. Senator McCain has stated repeatedly, and in his own book, that he felt the rocket hit his plane. It is conceivable that the rocket hit both planes, with either glancing blows or direct impacts. (The rocket continued on and splashed in the ocean, rather than stopping once it hit a plane.) The planes were damaged so much in the fires that there was no hard evidence left to show where the rocket made contact.
