Airport employees arrested over leaked footage of fatal crash
The police in Washington are investigating how a surveillance video showing a collision between a passenger aeroplane and a military helicopter ended up at CNN. The police have arrested two employees of Ronald Reagan Airport in connection with this case.
The arrested employees have been charged with unauthorised use of Washington airport computers and copying official files, which led to the release of the surveillance footage.
The footage, which was aired on CNN, shows the moment a Black Hawk military helicopter collided with an American Airlines aeroplane.
It is still unclear how CNN obtained the video material.
Aviation disaster in Washington. Everyone perished
Last week, a passenger aeroplane flying from Kansas collided with a military helicopter conducting a training flight. The incident occurred just in front of the runway at Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington.
On board the American Airlines aeroplane were 60 passengers and four crew members. In the helicopter, there were three soldiers. Both aircraft fell into the Potomac River, breaking into many pieces. No one survived.
President Donald Trump is being kept informed about the ongoing findings in the case. He assessed that the disaster "should have been prevented".
