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"  In the morning hours of July 29, 1967, 47 years ago today, an Mk-32 &amp;quot;Zuni&amp;quot; rocket accidentally fired form and F-4B Phantom II fighter parked on the deck of the USS Forrestal, an enormous aircraft carrier serving in the Gulf of Tonkin in the Vietnam War. The rocket struck an A-4 Skyhawk whose pilot was a young Sen. John McCain. The explosion killed 134 sailors and injured even more. Writing about such naval disasters in 1974, Popular Mechanics said, &amp;quot;no one is sure to this day just what triggered the Zuni.&amp;quot; Today, experts think that a series of events starting with a surge of extra voltage and including the failure to secure backup safety systems led to the accidental firing, the worst naval disaster of the Vietnam War.   Images Credit: The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images Following repairs the Forrestal went back into service until 1993; the Navy sold her for a penny to a scrap metal company in 2013.      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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