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Pilot and Passenger Trapped as Small Plane Crashes Into Electrical Tower in Maryland

A pilot and passenger were trapped in a small plane after it crashed into an electrical tower on the night of November 27, causing widespread power outages in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Footage filmed by Instagram user @rodshotit shows the plane dangling from the tower, about 100 feet in the air, according to Pete Piringer from the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service.

The occupants of the plane were not injured, Piringer said.

In a press conference, officials said crews were attempting to rescue the two trapped people using a “large crane”.

Energy provider Pepco said in a Twitter post that around 85,000 customers were affected by the outage.

This is a developing story. Credit: @rodshotit via Storyful

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- [INAUDIBLE]

- I wonder if they're going to have to [INAUDIBLE], or if one's going to have to climb from the inside and one from the outside.

- No. There's bars. So there's actually a section where there's bars, yeah, all around that thing.

- Oh, OK. OK. So you could pretty much climb up from any--

- Yeah. [INAUDIBLE]

- Dara says she didn't get Wi-Fi.

[PHONE JINGLES]

- Oh, you're online.

- What [MUTED] is right, dude. These are [MUTED].

- [INAUDIBLE]

- Yeah. So what? This one is blocked off. I can't even pull up. I can't go in or out with a whip.

- You on the 3G?

- 5G. I think they are good. Supposedly, I think they are good. One-- I think it's a pilot and a passenger.

- Yeah, it's fine. [INAUDIBLE]

- They gotta get the cops up. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. All right. So he should be accounted for.

- [INAUDIBLE]

- Pull up, Jado. Roll a Rito up. We need to a Rito right now for them.

- [INAUDIBLE]

- Yeah. It's the power line. [INAUDIBLE]

- --pilot back? Where back at?

- Plane crash.

- They said that there's two of them, and they're both still alive. A pilot and a passenger. A pilot and a passenger.

- I know that. You know it.

- I don't think so.

- [INAUDIBLE]

- My house. Next to my house.

- That one?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- That's my house. That's my house over there.

- That was your house?

- Yes.

- Or next to your--

- Yeah, next to. Next to.

- Yeah, yeah.

- That was close.

- [INAUDIBLE]

- Yeah.

- Yeah. Shit's crazy.

- I used to see the wife, and the daughter used to come to the store that I worked at. And they used to come all the time.

- [INAUDIBLE]

- Yeah. She's nervous.

- No, I don't know. I think they're alive. I think there's a pilot and a passenger. I think they're alive.

- All right. We got it. We got it. We got it.

- Yeah.

- All right.

- Those two lights are [INAUDIBLE]

- I don't know.

- Oh, they're spotlights. They're spotlights, I think.

- That's-- Oh, OK.

- That's what they look like. They definitely need more light than that.

- Oh, definitely.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think you're right. I think those are the FBI investigation trucks.

[LAUGHTER]

CSI is here. NCIS.

- You hear Dante?

- I heard Dante.

- He's back there, but he doesn't bark like that.

- [INAUDIBLE]

- Yeah. That's, like, a light boy truck type shit. [INAUDIBLE]

- If they could move back here--

- Hey, I'm about to go grab my phone for this. It's online. It's online.

- [INAUDIBLE]

Here, you do it.

- Hold it. Now, put your finger in the--

- No, hold the phone.

- But--

- You're a better photographer.

- [INAUDIBLE]

- Back of my hand's hurting. When I take a photo, my hand's hurting. You don't see it shaking? What you got to do is flip the PopSocket.

- Oh, yeah.

- [INAUDIBLE]

- What's it like?

- Uh, a lot more than that.

[MUFFLED GRINDING]

- Oh, look. Your brother [INAUDIBLE]

- Oh, yeah?

- That's why I kept focusing on the truck.

- Yeah.

[DISTANT CONVERSATION]

- [INAUDIBLE]

- Jeez. Yeah.

- Thanks.

- Yeah.