Two Ronald Reagan Washington Airport workers arrested for leaking plane crash footage to CNN
The network obtained exclusive footage with phone recordings of the crash that offered a different and closer viewpoint.
Remains of the crashed plane in Washington, DC.
Two workers at the authority that manages Washington's Ronald Reagan Airport were arrested for their alleged involvement in leaking footage of the plane crash between a military helicopter and a passenger jet last week to CNN.
The workers have been charged with making an unauthorized copy of records and face charges of computer tampering, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) said Monday.
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The complaint came after CNN obtained images that offered a new point of view of the crash over the Potomac River between a military Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane in which all 67 people in both vehicles lost their lives.
The videos, broadcast exclusively by the network, showed, through cell phone recordings, a closer and clearer view of the air disaster. One of the clips even shows the helicopter being launched from the left side of the screen as the American Airlines flight approached the airport. A second video shows how the military vehicle, and the Bombardier CRJ700 head towards each other before colliding and exploding.
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