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Gregory Peck's Ghost Story
Gregory Peck was on his way into London to begin filming. And the plane he was on was struck by lightning. So that's not man-made. According to Scientific American, each airplane in the US commercial air fleet is struck by lightning at least once a year. Now usually these strikes are light and not really notice that much. Don't do a bunch of damage. They used to, but they definitely don't anymore. It happens once a year to each plane on average, but December 8th, 1963, a commercial airliner crashed as a direct result of being struck by lightning - 73 people were killed. This was directly due to lightning strikes and it ignited the fuel tank and that