D.C. airport employees arrested for leaking fatal plane crash video

Two airdrome employees were arrested aft they allegedly leaked video of past week’s tragic mid-air collision betwixt an American Airlines pitchy and an service helicopter adjacent Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport successful D.C.

The 2 Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) employees were charged successful transportation with making an unauthorized transcript of airports authorization records, MWAA spokesperson Rob Yingling said in a statement connected Tuesday.

Mohamed Lamine Mbengue, 21, of Rockville, Md., was arrested and charged with machine trespass connected Jan. 31, 1 time aft the clang implicit the Potomac River. He was booked into Arlington County Adult Detention Center and released connected his ain recognizance, according to Yingling.

On Feb. 2, Jonathan Savoy, 45, of Upper Marlboro, Md., was besides arrested connected a complaint of machine trespass. Yingling said Savoy was released connected a summons by a magistrate justice assigned to the case. (Currently, determination is nary mugshot of Savoy available.)

The leaked video, which aired connected CNN according to reports, captured the infinitesimal the U.S. service Black Hawk chopper collided mid-air with an American Airlines determination rider jet, resulting successful 67 fatalities, including 3 service soldiers aboard the helicopter.

Airport authorization officials did not specify however Mbengue and Savoy obtained oregon distributed the exclusive footage.

According to Arlington County General District Court records, Mbengue was acceptable to beryllium arraigned connected the complaint Monday but the proceeding was continued. A aboriginal arraignment day has not been set.

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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said connected Monday that it has completed interviews with aerial postulation controllers successful its probe into the collision.

On Tuesday, the salvage squad recovered portion of the fuselage and close motor of the Bombardier CRJ-700 rider jet. It volition retrieve the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk aft the airplane has been recovered.

The NTSB said it has obtained grooming and formation logs for some formation crews and attraction records for some craft and is gathering histories for some formation crews.

Officials announced successful a connection connected Tuesday that the remains of all 67 victims had been recovered. All but 1 person been identified.

Fourteen members of the figure skating assemblage were among the 60 travellers and 4 unit members connected committee the commercialized formation precocious connected Jan. 29. An Ohio assemblage pupil coming from her grandfather’s funeral, 2 Chinese nationals and a radical of hunters returning from a guided travel successful Kansas were besides among those who died successful the mid-air collision astatine Reagan National Airport successful Washington, D.C.

Wreckage from the collision is being moved to Hangar 7 astatine Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Much of the Potomac River remains restricted to authorized vessels. Two of the lesser-used runways astatine the airdrome stay closed.

—With files from Reuters and The Associated Press