A small plane crashed into and got stuck in live power lines about 100 feet above the ground Sunday evening in Maryland. All aboard were rescued and uninjured, but about 80,000 customers lost power in Montgomery County.
The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that the single-engine plane, which had departed White Plains, N.Y., crashed into the power lines near Montgomery County Airpark in Gaithersburg around 5:40 p.m. Sunday. The FAA said two people were aboard.
Pete Piringer, chief spokesperson for the Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service, later posted a video message on Twitter that said three people were on board but were uninjured. He said rescuers had been in contact with them.The video showed a small white plane positioned nose up near a power tower. The plane was stuck about 100 feet above the ground, and the transmission lines remained live, complicating rescue efforts, Piringer said.
The crash took place in Gaithersburg, a city of 69,000 people about 24 miles northwest of Washington, D.C. The cause of the crash wasn’t immediately clear. The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate what happened.
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