Two people were rescued early Monday from a small airplane stuck an estimated 100 feet above ground after it struck a high-voltage transmission tower outside Gaithersburg, Maryland, officials said.
The two suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries and were rushed to trauma care following their rescue shortly before 12:30 a.m., Montgomery County Fire Department officials said at a news conference.
But authorities early Monday said that the pair suffered physical trauma during the collision, and that they may have also suffered from exposure while waiting for rescuers in 50-degree weather. A small plane with two people aboard sits lodged in a power line pole Sunday evening in Montgomery County, Md."There is no other way to determine if it's safe to access the tower until it is grounded or bonded, which means crews have to go up to the wires themselves to put clamps or cables onto the wires to then ensure that there's no static electricity, no residual power," Montgomery County Fire Chief Scott Goldstein said at an earlier news conference.
"Arriving troopers found the plane suspended in the air, entangled in a power line tower," state police said in the statement.
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