A small plane with two people aboard slammed into a power transmission tower in Montgomery County, Maryland, authorities said.
"There is no other way to determine if it's safe to access the tower until it is grounded, or bonded," Goldstein said."Crews have to go up to the wires themselves to put clamps or cables onto the wire to then ensure that there's no static electricity, no residual power... as well as the vibration of the airplane, securing the airplane to the tower structure."
During operations, authorities said they were in communication with the two people on board, but were trying to conserve the battery on the cellphones they were using. They were checking in with them regularly.Two people were left stranded in the crumpled aircraft 100 feet from the ground and the crash left large swaths of the county without power. News4's Jackie Bensen reports.
Montgomery County Public Schools said its schools and offices would be closed due to the outage. Montgomery College also closed all of its campuses and locations.
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