Final week, everybody stood shocked in entrance of their tv screens on the information of a deadly crash between an American Airways aircraft and a Black Hawk navy helicopter. The horrifying footage unfold throughout the web like a wildfire. Nonetheless, the suspects behind the leak of the footage are in huge bother.
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority mentioned 21-year-old Mohamed Mbengue and 45-year-old Jonathan Savoy had been arrested and charged with pc trespass within the days following the crash, per USA TODAY. The 2 aircrafts collided in midair whereas headed to Ronald Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport the night of Jan. 29. Following a dramatic explosion, the 2 aircrafts plunged into the Potomac River. All 67 folks aboard each planes – passengers, pilots and crew – are presumed lifeless, authorities mentioned.
MWAA authorities say Mbengue and Savoy are accused of “making an unauthorized copy of information belonging to the Airports Authority,” per the report. Suspiciously sufficient, Mbengue was arrested on Jan. 31, the identical day CNN printed unique, ugly surveillance footage of the crash. Savoy was arrested days in a while Feb. 2. In line with ABC’s report, the staff had been linked to the leak of the CNN movies. Nonetheless, authorities haven’t specified that nor the character behind their arrests.
Within the movies printed by CNN, one seemed to be taken from the airport trying over the runways and the opposite seemed to be recorded from the shoreline by the river, probably by somebody’s cellphone. CNN didn’t disclose who they obtained the footage from.
Savoy was launched on a summons by a Justice of the Peace decide and Mbengue was booked into Arlington County Grownup Detention Heart however was additionally launched, per MWAA. There’s no telling in the mean time what their destiny can be.