After video from an airport surveillance camera was shown on CNN last week after 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 Friday on CNN 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, Md. was charged with computer trespass for “making an unauthorized copy of Airports Authority records,” authority spokeswoman Crystal Nosal said. He was booked into the Arlington County jail and released. On Sunday, authority employee Jonathan Savoy, 45, of Upper Marlboro, Md., was arrested and charged with computer trespass, Nosal said. He also was released pending trial.