Aircraft carrier on fire

[ODSCandidate]

Anyone know when and where this happened and which carrier this is?

link bad Better link here: http://www.forrestal.org/fidfacts/page13.htm

 

[phrogpilot73]

Do you live under a rock? That's the USS Forrestal. I've give you a clue as to WHEN it happened - John McCain is the pilot that jumps out of the A-4, BEFORE he was a POW. In Vietnam.

 

[Uncle Fester]

It's the Forrestal fire. See the little "CVA-59" tag at the start of the PLAT footage? And that was John McCain's Scooter that gets blowed up at the beginning.

EDIT: Phrog beat me to it.

 

[squeeze]

Oh you will learn... it's the single excuse the Navy uses for everything remotely ordnance-related aboard the boat. In fact, I'm pretty sure the ordnance chapter of the Can't Manual is nothing more than the word "Forrestal".

HERO for CADs ... Forrestal
HERO for HERO-safe rockets ... Forrestal
Arm/De-arm procedures for CATMs ... Forrestal
All manor of expendables-related shenanigans ... Forrestal

 

[Rocketman]

.......words about malware.......link all better......

 

[Pilot123]

FWIW, my anti-virus software got a hit when I tried to open that link...

 

[picklesuit]

yeah, thanks for the ,alware link...ignorant and unhelpful...Way to go ODS...

 

[Flash]

Oh you will learn... it's the single excuse the Navy uses for everything remotely ordnance-related aboard the boat. In fact, I'm pretty sure the ordnance chapter of the Can't Manual is nothing more than the word "Forrestal".

HERO for CADs ... Forrestal
HERO for HERO-safe rockets ... Forrestal
Arm/De-arm procedures for CATMs ... Forrestal
All manor of expendables-related shenanigans ... Forrestal

Well it didn't just happen once, the Forrestal fire was one of only several pretty bad carrier fires in the 60's, the Enterprise and the Oriskany both had pretty bad fires too. The Enterprise one in 1969 was from a Zuni rocket that was set off by stray voltage, just like the Forrestal.

 

[feddoc]

The USS Forrestal was my first boat. I have to thank it for where I am today. At EAOS my choices back then, according to my Master Chief, were: 1. Back to the USS Forrestal or 2. Back to the USS Forrestal. I decided to get out and finish a couple of degrees instead.

 

[Brett327]

We're not turning this thread into a Mac vs PC thing.

Brett

 

[nittany03]

Brett's been laying the smack down lately. Don't you have some JOs to harass?

 

[exhelodrvr]

"Trial By Fire" - probably saw that film 30 times.

 

[SteveG75]

 

[rondebmar]

As an A7 RAG IP, I was tasked to represent the unit at the final "Admiral's Conference", or whatever, down in San Diego...(Forrestal)...

Fishing/boating Forum friend of mine is writing a novel...invited me to "vet" the USN related chapters...one involves a carrier fire...modeled after the Big E fire...he's an old F4 NFO...maybe I can get him over here to AW...

Good friend & fellow VA-122 IP (K-12) was SDO on Oriskany...was manning the RR that AM...otherwise, he'd be as dead as all those berthed around him...

Early '60's cruise on Sara...in the Med...during NATO exercise...everything on the "roof" loaded w/live ordnance...night flight deck crash...we damn near lost her...scary...I'll post more about it later...

Nap time now...:sleep_125

 

[Mumbles]

Got to do a Tiger Cruise on CV-59 before she was about to be turned into AVT-59 to replace the Lex in P-cola in 1991 or so. (Obviously this didn't happen and the USN never had a dedicated training carrier again) Remember going on a tour below decks underneath the LOX farm and there were still scorch marks all over the bulkheads that were pointed out.
Flash, pretty sure the Zuni on the 'stal was set off by the huffer that the plane captain had draped the hose right underneath the A-4 pylon.