Two people are trapped inside of a small plane entangled in live wires about 100 feet from the ground after it crashed into powerlines in Maryland Sunday evening.
The single-engine aircraft crashed into the high-tension wires as it prepared its descent towards Montgomery County Airpark in Gaithersburg around 5:30 p.m., authorities said.
“[The two people aboard the plane] seem to be okay at this time, however, they’re in a very precarious situation due to the fact that they are dangling about 100 feet up and everything’s still energized,” Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Services chief spokesperson Pete Piringer said from the scene.
The collision left tens of thousands of people in the area without power Sunday night.
According to the local energy supplier, Pepco, 85,000 to 90,000 homes and businesses were affected by the “widespread” outages in Montgomery County. Several traffic lights are out and elevators have also been effected, Piringer said.
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