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Three other men from West London, aged 31, 51 and 60, were released while the investigation continues.
WASHINGTON - A small plane crashed into high-voltage power lines about 30 miles north of Washington, DC, on Sunday, causing mass outages, with rescue services working into the night to rescue two people on board the aircraft still entangled in the cables.
The aircraft crashed about 5.30pm in misty and wet conditions in Montgomery Village, Maryland, according to the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service. It became caught up in live power lines about 100 feet from the ground.
The impact caused power outages to over 120 000 customers, according to Pepco, the Washington-area utility company. Roads were also closed and many traffic lights in the area were out.
Fire officials said two people were alive, but trapped inside the plane.
Scott Goldstein, Montgomery County Fire Chief, said rescue officials were in contact with the occupants,
Man burns himself, dies
NEW DELHI - An octogenarian man burned himself to death in southern India in protest at what he called New Delhi’s attempts to impose nationwide usage of Hindi, a language mostly spoken in the north, police said on Sunday. Language is an emotive issue in India where hundreds of languages and dialects are spoken, but English serves as the main official medium while State governments use regional languages. According to the most recent census in 2011, fewer than half of Indian citizens speak Hindi - just under 44 per cent.
Millions without power
UKRAINE - Heavy snowfall is forecast to blanket Kyiv and eastern Ukraine until mid next week with temperatures dropping below freezing as millions of Ukrainians are left without power due to Russian missile strikes on energy infrastructure. Grid operator Ukrenergo said on Saturday that electricity producers were able to cover only three-quarters of consumption needs in the capital, necessitating restrictions and blackouts across the country. Sergey Kovalenko, chief operating
Landslide kills 14
CAMEROON - A landslide in Cameroon’s capital Yaounde on Sunday killed at least 14 people who were attending a funeral, the region’s governor said.
“We are carrying the corpses to the mortuary of the central hospital, while the search for other people, or corpses, is still ongoing,” Naseri Paul Bea, governor of Cameroon’s Centre region, told media at the scene.
Dozens of people were attending a funeral on a soccer pitch at the base of a 20-meter-high soil embankment, which collapsed on top of them, witnesses told Reuters. Yaounde is one of the wettest cities in Africa and is made of dozens of steep, shack-lined hills. by calling their cellphones at regular intervals. He declined to describe the condition of the plane’s occupants, except to say ‘we have been in contact with them.’
‘There is no other way to determine if it’s safe to access the tower until it is grounded, which means crews have to go up to the wires themselves to put clamps and cables onto the wires’ to ensure there is no static electricity or ‘stray’ power, Goldstein told reporters.
Goldstein said the plane also needs to be secured to the electrical tower before the occupants can be removed.
He said an ‘extraordinarily large crane’ provided by a local company was on the scene, in addition to electrical tower specialists who will man large tower bucket trucks.
According to the FAA, the Mooney M20J aircraft was flying from Westchester, New York and had been due to land at Montgomery Airpark, close to the crash site.