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Two workers with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority in D.C. are accused of leaking official airport footage of the second when an Military UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter collided with American Airways passenger Flight 5342 simply exterior Washington Reagan Nationwide Airport (DCA) into the Potomac River final week.
Each males have been charged in reference to making an unauthorized copy of Airports Authority data associated to the Jan. 29 airplane collision, in keeping with MWAA. The suspects apparently leaked the footage to CNN, as FOX 5 D.C. reported.
Authorities arrested and charged Mohamed Lamine Mbengue, 21, of Rockville, Maryland, with laptop trespass, a misdemeanor, on Jan. 31.
Upon additional investigation, authorities arrested and charged Jonathan Savoy, 45, of Higher Marlboro, Maryland, with the identical crime. A mugshot was not obtainable for Savoy on the time of publication.
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Authorities arrested and charged Mohamed Lamine Mbengue, 21, of Rockville, Maryland, with laptop trespass, a misdemeanor, on Jan. 31. (FOX 5 DC/ Arlington Co. Sheriff’s Workplace)
Court docket data say Savoy used a work-issued cellphone to file a video of victims being recovered after the collision.
On Feb. 2, “it was reported to the MWAA Police Division, Felony Investigation Part that an worker with MWAA Police Division, Felony Investigation Part that an worker with the MWAA Public Security Communication (Dispatchers) had video recorded/taken footage of video of the deceases that have been concerned within the plane collision,” a criticism states.
The criticism continues: “The movies/ footage have been taken on the Accused’s cellphone from a pc that was logged on an MWAA restricted community to view video surveillance. The Accused recorded movies of the deceased our bodies being transferred from a first-responder boat onto a staging space.”
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An Military Black Hawk helicopter collided midair with an American Airways jet at Reagan Washington Nationwide airport. (Credit score: EarthCam) (EarthCam)
The Arlington County Normal District Court docket instructed Fox Information Digital {that a} criticism for Mbengue was not obtainable on the time of publication.
The collision killed a complete of 67 individuals, and authorities are nonetheless working to determine all of the victims concerned and clear particles from the Potomac as of Tuesday.
Savoy was launched on a summons by a Justice of the Peace, and Mbengue was booked into the Arlington County Grownup Detention Heart and launched on his personal recognizance, MWAA instructed Fox Information Digital in a press release.
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Wreckage is seen within the Potomac River close to Ronald Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport, on Thursday, Jan. 30. (Petty Officer 1st Class Brandon Giles, U.S. Coast Guard by way of AP)
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Authorities haven’t launched any additional details about the incident.
Fox Information Digital reached out to CNN for remark.
DC airplane crash: Airport workers arrested over leaked video
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