Two airport workers are facing charges for reportedly sharing video of last week’s deadly plane and helicopter crash in Washington, D.C. with CNN.
On Friday, CNN showed two videos that offered the best views of the accident that happened on January 29 over the Potomac River, which resulted in the deaths of 67 people.
American Airlines Flight 5342 is coming down toward Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport when an Army Black Hawk chopper flies right into it, causing an explosion in the air.
Lamine Mbengue, 21, from Rockville, Maryland, was arrested on Friday. He is charged with computer trespass for copying information without permission from the Airports Authority, according to a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
He was taken to the Arlington County Adult Detention Center and was freed without having to pay bail.
Jonathan Savoy, 45, from Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was also charged on Sunday with computer mischief. The judge let him go after giving him a summons.
Neither of them had a lawyer. A representative would not confirm if Mbengue and Savoy still have their jobs.
Salvage workers began removing some of the crash wreckage from the Potomac on Monday, recovering an engine and pieces of the plane’s fuselage.
The National Transportation Safety Board, in charge of the investigation, said that efforts to collect the helicopter’s remains will start after the airplane has been retrieved.
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