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Daily Kos: McCain flew plane across plains of Spain in '60s!

Yes, John McCain does know where Spain is, too well. Back in the early '60s he was flying low and fast over sunny southern Spain, when he and his jet had an unfortunate encounter with some high-tension powerlines. He didn't crash, but he did cause a major blackout.

I diaried McCain's plane events earlier, but thought it worthwhile to remind people that John McCain is not always on the ball when piloting anything.

The locals didn't much appreciate the incident, as it created a blackout, and there were some newspaper stories about the son of an admiral doing as he wanted.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Sep 18th, 2008 at 03:34:56 PM EST
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It's too bad he's not responsible for this.

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Sep 18th, 2008 at 04:16:42 PM EST
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