A man cheated death by seconds when a freak lightning bolt sent a tree branch hurtling through the rear of his car. Bernard Williams had just removed his gym bag from the boot during a rainstorm when the bolt hit an adjacent willow tree catapulting a 10-foot long piece of wood across the road. The branch smashed into the car’s back window – directly where Bernard had been standing – and ended up in the alleyway next to the house after taking a tail light with it.

CCTV footage taken on the property’s security camera shows Bernard arriving back home in torrential rain and then grabbing his gym bag before running towards the front door of the house. But just four seconds after leaving the car there is aModern aircraft, in particular transport airplanes, comprise an automatic piloting system enabling a pilot of the aircraft to select at least one guidance mode which is implemented automatically by the automatic piloting system when the automatic piloting is engaged. For example, in a cruising flight phase of the aircraft, a guidance mode may consist in following a previously defined flight plan. In a take-off phase of the aircraft, a guidance mode may consist in keeping the wings of the aircraft flat when rolling on a take-off runway: when the automatic piloting is engaged, the automatic piloting system automatically controls the roll angle of the aircraft so as to keep the wings of the aircraft flat. Another guidance mode relates to an automatic rotation of the aircraft upon take-off: