Gotta nip this news story in the bud before too many people get the word.
-NW

Airport workers arrested, accused of leaking video of Washington DC plane crash
By Tom Jackman | Washington Post
Reposted on The New Zealand Herald
3 Feb, 2025

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CNN obtained footage of the deadly collision between a jet and helicopter that was apparently from airport surveillance footage.

After video appearing to be from an airport surveillance camera was shown on CNN last week in the wake of the fatal American Airlines jet collision with an Army helicopter, two airport authority employees were arrested and charged with leaking official airport records.

The video aired on Friday morning on CNN and provided a new visual angle of the crash between the jet and the Blackhawk helicopter. CNN anchor Kate Bolduan introduced the footage by saying it “appears to be surveillance video from the airport”.

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority employee Mohamed Lamine Mbengue, 21, of Rockville, Maryland, was charged on Friday with computer trespass for “making an unauthorised copy of Airports Authority records”, authority spokeswoman Crystal Nosal said on Monday. Mbengue was booked into the Arlington County jail and released.

On Sunday, authority employee Jonathan Savoy, 45, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was arrested and charged with computer trespass, Nosal said. He also was released pending trial.