Wednesday, 3 May 2017
Everyone’s lost their electricity for a little while, but usually it’s because of something mundane — routine maintenance, a lightning strike, an electrocuted squirrel. The residents of Mukilteo, Oregon have a more dramatic story, which I might not believe if there weren’t video evidence. Simon Li uploaded the footage to YouTube, which shows a plane torpedoing through the sky and hitting a power line, which ignites the fuel and causes a massive fireball. According to Gizmodo, it managed to knock out power for 9,000 local residents. It looks way worse than it actually was. First, the single-engine plane — which lost…
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