Photos: Two passengers rescued from plane tangled in high-voltage lines in Maryland
power lines in Maryland after an hours-long ordeal that saw power cut to nearly 100,000 homes and businesses, led to school cancellations and plunged rescuers into a complex effort to safely remove the people aboard.Bystanders look on as emergency personnel work to extract two people after their small plane crashed into a power transmission tower, knocking out power to the surrounding area in Montgomery Village, Md.
Both the pilot and passenger were pulled from the plane and onto large buckets attached to towering cranes shortly after midnight. Montgomery County Fire Chief Scott Goldstein said the pilot and passenger suffered orthopedic injuries, trauma and had “hypothermia issues.”Robb Hill/for The Washington PostMaryland State Police identified the pilot as Patrick Merkle, 65, of Washington and his passenger as Jan Williams, 66, of Louisiana.Williams was pulled from the plane at 12:25 a.m.
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