Live Video: Small Plane Dangles From Power Transmission Tower in Montgomery County - NBC4 Washington

A tiny level with 2 radical aboard slammed into a powerfulness transmission operation successful Montgomery County, Maryland, connected Sunday evening, authorities said. Two radical were near stranded successful the crumpled craft 100 feet from the crushed and the clang near ample swaths of the region without power.

The single-engine Mooney M20J level crashed into PEPCO energy transmission wires adjacent Goshen Road and Rothbury Drive successful Gaithersburg astir 5:40 p.m., the FAA and Montgomery County authorities said.

The passengers were not wounded but are stuck successful the level that is wedged into the transmission tower, authorities said.

The aerial lines are inactive live, authorities said. The collision, however, damaged immoderate of the lines leaving 85,000 customers without electricity, PEPCO said.

The occurrence section urged the assemblage to enactment distant due to the fact that the country is precise dangerous. Rescuers are moving to find however to rescue the plane's occupants.

The FAA said the level departed the Westchester County Airport successful White Plaines, New York. The intended destination was not instantly known.

Two radical appeared to beryllium uninjured aboard the plane, and tens of thousands of radical were without powerfulness successful the area.

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