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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 07:42 PM Jun 2014

Spain's plane home was struck by lightning.

Not The Onion!

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/brazil-beat-spains-team-plane-hit-lightning-180617452--spt.html

After being unceremoniously booted from World Cup competition, Spain's national team had a tough ride home when the plane most players were traveling in was hit by lightning just before it landed in Madrid.

A spokeswoman for airline Iberia SA said the lightning strike Tuesday caused no damage and that the jet landed normally without any injuries to those aboard. She spoke on condition of anonymity because of company policy preventing her from being identified....

Twenty of the team's 23-member squad came home on the plane hit by lightning, accompanied by team staff and journalists.

Spanish media said the players left the airport in vans without speaking to the media and didn't go close to about 200 fans who showed up to welcome them.


200 fans? The Buffalo Bills had more than that after they choked away the Super Bowl (the one to the Giants)!
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Spain's plane home was struck by lightning. (Original Post) KamaAina Jun 2014 OP
Spanish fans are obviously more fickle! VWolf Jun 2014 #1

VWolf

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1. Spanish fans are obviously more fickle!
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 09:26 AM
Jun 2014

They're also probably jaded from having won the WC in 2010 and the Euros in 2008 & 2012.

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