Wings over Suez by Brian Cull gives an account of the loss of the aircraft that states it was due to flak.
McCarthy flew for three miles out to sea before ejecting and was picked up by a Whirlwind helicopter.
He was one of 6 aircraft attacking Gamil Bridge.
I think the book is pretty authorative
Dave, that is the account that i have read time and time again.. and always assumed that it was fact. So you can imagine my surprise, as well as scepticism, to read something like this involving a possible aerial combat.. that could in fact be re-writing history.
We did after all accept that it was Hoagy Carmichael that shot down the first MiG by an FAA Seafury during Korea, until that was contested fairly recently by another pilot of at the time lower rank.
At the time of Suez the whole political situation was nothing short of an unstable minefield, and after all these years it is i think quite conceivable that a confrontation such as this did take place and was indeed ‘covered up’, but for what reasons remains unknown… unless?
For those interested i am quoteing from the publication of the Air Combat Information Group, Middle East Database and is part of the Allied Losses section http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_256.shtml
Rob.
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