The pilot in a US naval aircraft aboard a US Navy aircraft carrier has absolutely no say in how or where his aircraft is parked. I don’t like McCain at all, but he had no part in causing the fire on Forrestal. Every evolution on the flight deck of every US Navy aircraft carrier is recorded, on film or video. You, as have I, can watch the flight deck film of the event. It shows an uncommanded launch of a Zuni rocket from an F4 across the deck from McCain’s A4. The rocket struck the A4 parked next to his, starting the fire. The film shows him climbing out of the cockpit and sliding down the nose of his aircraft and running off. He no more started the fire than you or I did. Go watch the film.