Reports suggested that European sites were specifically affected because of a lightning strike in Dublin.

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The report found that serious design flaws in control equipment and improper handling of the lightning strike led to the crash.

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New Girl was only the third pilot she had ever written, the kind of lightning-strike success that's virtually unheard of in the entertainment industry.

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More than 750 firefighters and support personnel were working in Oregon and Nevada to corral the 418, 235-acre Holloway Fire, the largest of the Western wildfires ignited by a lightning strike on August 5.

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Even more than most, Mr Brown needs to keep his chancellor as a lightning rod for bolts of criticism that might otherwise strike him.

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The repairs took several weeks and we were told by Gulfstream that this was the second worse lightning strike that Gulfstream had seen on one of their airplanes.

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Elsewhere in the Caribbean, a lightning strike sparked a fire Monday that destroyed the island home of Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson.

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Activision could even see lightning strike twice if they adapted the Skylanders model to its Transformers line of video games.

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