Two airport authority staff arrested for allegedly leaking Washington DC plane crash video to CNN

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Two Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority employees were detained in connection with a leaked video of an American Airlines passenger flight crashing with an Army helicopter.

On Wednesday night, as the plane approached Reagan National Airport with 60 passengers and four crew members, it was hit by a Black Hawk Army chopper conducting a training mission.

Footage of the incident rapidly went viral, eliciting a variety of opinions online.

Two airport employees leaked the video to CNN, police allege, according to ABC.

The couple has been charged with computer trespass after allegedly making an unauthorised duplicate of Airports Authority records.

Mohamed Lamine Mbengue, 21, of Rockville, Maryland, was detained on January 31 for the violation. He was booked into the Arlington County Adult Detention Centre but later released.

Then, on Sunday, Jonathan Savoy, 45, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was arrested for the same incident. A magistrate summoned him and ordered his release.

According to Mail Online, the passenger jet’s flight recorder showed an altitude of 325 feet, plus or minus 25 feet, when it crashed Wednesday night. However, data from the control tower indicated that the Black Hawk helicopter was at 200 feet at the time.

The 100-foot difference has yet to be explained, but if the impact took place at 325ft, the crash would have occurred well above the maximum allowed altitude of 200ft for helicopters in the area.

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