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Near the fill liens, the u.s. military is scrambling to recover this f-35 stealth fighter which crashed into the ocean on monday. this version is the most sophisticated war plane the u.s. has, and the u.s. fears china might try to reach the wreckage first. cnn's ivan watson with the latest. >> reporter: the final approach of an f-35c stealth fighter jet seconds before it crash lands into the flight deck of a u.s. aircraft carrier. images circulated on social media confirmed by the u.s. navy show the plane moments later in the ocean, canopy open after its pilot escaped. the cause of the crash, ...

>> old friend, chuck larson, witnessed the crash and says mccain finally kicked the canopy open. >> i don't think it changed him at all. john went back to the room, went to bed for about two hours, got up, we went over to the club for happy hour and he regaled everybody with stories of his crash. >> i don't think until actually the "forrestal", which was a really miraculous that he survived, that he began to take his military career seriously. >> it was july 29th, 1967. his first combat mission aboard the "uss forrestal," an aircraft carrier assigned to bombing missions over vietnam. a plane o...

1958 almost cost him his life. >> crashed in corpus christi bay, he sunk to the bottom. he was sitting on the bottom of the aircraft and he said, you know, i remember there's some kind of a switch here somewhere that blows the canopy off the airplane, but i didn't read that book. and i don't know where the switch is. so i guess i'm dead. >> old friend, chuck larson, witnessed the crash and says mccain finally kicked the canopy open. >> i don't think it changed him at all. john went back to the room, went to bed for about two hours, got up, we went over to the club for happy hour and he regaled...

By myself off of aircraft carriers. i thought that was the height of glamour and excitement. and again, it was a bit self-absorbed. >> beautiful women, fast cars and late nights were distractions and one incident in 1958 almost cost him his life. >> crashed in corpus christi bay. he sunk to the bottom. he was sitting on the bottom of the aircraft and he said i know there's a switch here somewhere that blows the can mi canopy off the airplane but i didn't read that book, so i don't know where that switch is so i guess i'm dead. >> mccain finally kicked the canopy open. >> i don't think it chang...

Mccain acted as if he was one of his favorite literary characters. >> i've wanted to fly airplanes by myself. i thought that was the height of glamour and excitement. again, it was a bit self absorbed. >> beautiful women, fast cars and light nights were distractions and one incident in 1958 almost cost him his life. >> crashed through corpus kristy bay. he sunk to the bottom. he was sit og tting on the bott the aircraft and he said i know there's a switch here somewhere that blows the bottom off the airplane, but i don't know where that switch is so i guess i'm dead. >> mccain finally kicked t...