Dept of: you couldn't make it up

What with the BNP having fisticuffs, the rest of us profoundly underwhelmed, and now the link below, this really is not turning out to be a positive day for any party, is it?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/8664260.stm

"The politician had to be hauled to safety after the aircraft plummeted to the ground when an election banner declaring 'Vote for your country, vote UKIP' apparently became tangled on the tail fin."