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Politician Has Plane Crash On Voting Day - Survives! by Sagamite(m): 12:17pm On May 06, 2010
[size=18pt]Nigel Farage injured in plane crash on election day[/size]

The former UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage has been injured in a plane crash in Northamptonshire.

The plane carrying two people crashed at Hinton in the Hedges Airfield at Steane, near Brackley, at 0759 BST.

Mr Farage was taken to hospital in Banbury with non-life threatening injuries, and the pilot was transferred to University Hospital in Coventry.

The plane came down an hour after polling stations opened for voting in the general election.

The pilot, who was trapped in the wreckage and had to be airlifted to hospital, is believed to be more seriously injured of the two.

Chris Adams, UKIP parliamentary candidate for Aylesbury, said: "Nigel was unconscious but he can talk.

"He's been coming in and out of consciousness and is now being X-rayed."

The aircraft was due to circle over Buckingham, where Mr Farage is standing as a candidate, trailing a banner, a UKIP spokesman said.

Mike Jose, Mr Farage's assistant, said they had previously flown the plane and banner over the constituency without any problems.

A UKIP spokesman said the aircraft had flown into the airfield from Winchester area and was taking off again when the accident happened

He added: "We've had unconfirmed reports that either the banner got snagged up, or there were cross-winds and it was unfamiliar airfield to the pilot."

But Mr Adams said he had spoken to an aviation expert who said the banner could not have got caught up in the tail fin, as some reports had suggested.

The airfield has now been closed and the crash is due to be investigated by the Air Accident Investigation Branch, Northamptonshire Police said.

East Midlands Ambulance Service and fire crews remain at the scene.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/8664260.stm
Re: Politician Has Plane Crash On Voting Day - Survives! by Sagamite(m): 12:21pm On May 06, 2010
I bet if this happened in Nigeria, you would get some slowpoke rushing here to throw sophistic idiocy that either:

A - He did it on purpose to win pity votes, that "how come he is crashing on the voting day?". That it is too coincidental, hence it must have been planned because he knew he could not win. That if it was not planned, how come he survived. That how many people survive such plane crash.

OR

B - It was his enemies that are doing him. They used juju on him or it was a sabotage by OBJ.
Re: Politician Has Plane Crash On Voting Day - Survives! by tkb417(m): 12:24pm On May 06, 2010
lmao

his enemies are at work grin grin grin option B

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