Another on-board officer, Lieutenant Tom Treanore, later returned to the ship as its commander and retired an admiral. ![]() Future United States Senator John McCain and future four-star admiral and U.S. The ship survived, but with damage exceeding US$72 million, not including the damage to aircraft. At the time, Forrestal was engaged in combat operations in the Gulf of Tonkin, during the Vietnam War. The flammable jet fuel spilled across the flight deck, ignited, and triggered a chain reaction of explosions that killed 134 sailors and injured 161. On 29 July 1967, a fire broke out on board the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal after an electrical anomaly caused a Zuni rocket on an F-4B Phantom to fire, striking an external fuel tank of an A-4 Skyhawk. Ship in dry dock for five months.Īircraft lost: seven F-4B Phantom II eleven A-4E Skyhawks and three RA-5C Vigilantes 40 others damaged Beling absolved of responsibility no crew members charged.
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