| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | July 29, 1967 |
| Time: | 1051 |
| Location: | Gulf of Tonkin, |
| Operator: | Military - US Navy |
| Flight #: | ? |
| Route: | Bombing mission |
| AC Type: | Mc Donnell Douglas F-4B Phantom II |
| Registration: | - |
| cn / ln: | - |
| Aboard: | 2 (passengers:0 crew:2) |
| Fatalities: | 0 (passengers:0 crew:0) |
| Ground: | 134 |
| Summary: | The plane was preparing to take off from the aircraft carrier Forrestal and was armed with Zuni rockets. When it switched from external to internal power, an electrical fault caused one of the rockets to fire, hitting an A-4 Skyhawk nearby on the flight deck. Spilled fuel and other weapons then burned and exploded and caused 72 million dollars of damage. One of the injured was future US senator John McCain, who might have been in the A-4 that was hit, or another one next to it. |
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