Lightening strikes B'Liar twice

Maybe the big boss upstairs is trying to get rid of him as well !!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...ge/4490809.stm


Lightning strikes Blair's plane

Prime Minister Tony Blair's election campaign plane has been struck by
lightning during a flight.
BBC Radio Five Live presenter Peter Allen, who was on the aircraft,
said it was hit as it approached London on Wednesday afternoon.

He said he heard a loud bang but Mr Blair, who was talking to a
journalist at the time, was apparently "imperturbable".

Mr Allen said: "The rest of us certainly weren't imperturbable."

'Red and white flash'

BBC producer Will Walden said many of the journalists were asleep when
the incident happened over London at about 1400 BST.

"All I remember was a red and white flash just in my mind which woke
me up with a start," he said.

"The plane wobbled from side to side a but it was also quite rough
anyway because it was pretty cloudy and rainy. Lots of people looked
momentarily shocked."

One journalist was talking privately to Mr Blair and when she
suggested the lightning strike could have been a missile, the Labour leader
just shrugged his shoulders and "didn't bat an eye lid".

Common

The pilot did not make a tannoy announcement about the incident and
the plane landed safely about 10 minutes later.

After landing, the pilot explained such strikes were reasonably common
and the plane's wings contained conductors to dissipate the electricity from
a lightning.

Mr Blair's plane has been hit by lightning before, during a trip to
Washington.

Conservative leader Michael Howard also had a brush with storm
conditions on Wednesday.

Forced to abandon his helicopter because of engine problems, Mr Howard
took a commercial flight.

At one point the flight's pilot announced that the "pop" that
passengers might have heard was a lightning strike 15 miles away.