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No one is sure to this day just what triggered the Zuni, but the missile shot down the flight deck and slammed into a Skyhawk waiting to take off on the afterdeck, blasting the bomber and spewing blazing jet fuel onto other aircraft standing nearby.
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John McCain, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2018
Within an instant, the afterdeck is a raging inferno as one fuel tank after another explodes in the intense heat.
—John McCain, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2018
John McCain, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2018
Within an instant, the afterdeck is a raging inferno as one fuel tank after another explodes in the intense heat.
—John McCain, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2018
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afterdeck
noun
af·ter·deck
-ˌdek 
: the rear half of the deck of a ship
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