He was shot down in one jet. He had an engine failure in another jet and it crashed despite his efforts to relight the engine. He crashed into Corpus Cristi Bay...crash cause undetermined. He clipped some power lines in Spain, but plane did not crash. He was in a jet on the USS Forestall that was hit by rocket fired across the flight deck from another jet.
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Several of the local schools added to the boilermaker tradition by suggesting that Purdue was going up the Wabash River and hiring workers from the nearby Monon railroad yards to play football. Of course it wasn't true. However, Purdue's official mascot is a Locomotive, the Boilermaker Special.