F4 Phantom Misfires on Crowded Flight Deck - Fire on USS Forrestal Animated

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On July 29th 1967, on the flight deck of the supercarrier USS Forrestal, a rocket from an F4 Phantom misfired, smashing into a Skyhawk opposite and starting a fire that led to huge explosions that threatened all 5000 crew onboard. This is the story of how it started, and how it was fought. 0:00 - Intro 0:30 - The Forrestal's Mission to Vietnam 3:10 - July 29th 1967 5:06 - ten fifty one and twenty one seconds 8:00 - The moments that changed everything 8:50 - Forrestal fights for her life 12:15 - Extinguished 13:13 - Counting the Cost Credits: Lead Animation for this video by: https://twitter.com/Scuffed_Lund Supporting animation by: https://twitter.com/addaway23 Artwork by: https://twitter.com/ChrisbyFlanker Written, Directed and Produced by: https://twitter.com/addaway23 Come join the historigraph discord: https://discord.gg/ygypfs3BEB Sources: Gregory Freeman, Sailors to the end: the deadly fire on the USS Forrestal and the heroes who fought it http://www.insensitivemunitions.org/history/the-uss-forrestal-cva-59-fire-and-munition-explosions/ https://www.navsource.org/archives/02/cv-59/59f-0729.htm Max Hastings, Vietnam Thomas McKelvey Cleaver, The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club: Naval Aviation in the Vietnam War Music Credits: "Rynos Theme" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Crypto" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Stay the Course" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Other music and SFX from Epidemic Sound