Airline prank names2/28/2024 ![]() Rapper Meek Mill tears up as Pennsylvania’s Shapiro signs probation reformĭamages in defamation suit hit already-strapped Giuliani Giuliani ordered to pay $148M in election workers’ defamation lawsuitĬlassified binder on Russian meddling went missing as Trump left office: ReportsĮlise Stefanik files complaint against federal judge who ruled in Jan. This is bigger than COVID: Why are so many Americans dying early? Ĭongress approves bill barring any president from unilaterally withdrawing from. Top evangelical leader says he doesn’t believe poll showing strong Trump. GOP senator says Biden can’t be impeached for pre-presidential actions This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. This post was updated with new information at 4:11 p.m.Ĭopyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. The crash of Asiana’s Flight 214 on July 6 resulted in the deaths of three passengers and more than 180 other injuries. We heard this person verify the information without questioning who they were, and then we rushed the names onto our noon newscast.”Īsiana Airlines has threatened to sue the television station for broadcasting the fake names. “Then during our phone call to the NTSB, where the person confirmed the spellings of the names, we never asked that person to give us their position. “First of all, we never read the names out loud, phonetically sounding them out,” Somerville continued. “We made several mistakes when we received this information,” KTVU anchor Frank Somerville said during an on-air apology that was broadcast on Friday night. The San Francisco station, KTVU, has said that it was basing its erroneous report on the NTSB’s confirmation. “I’m not at liberty to release the name of the individual nor can I go any further regarding status.” “With regard to the intern’s status - what I can tell you is that we’ve taken appropriate action,” Nantel continued. Nantel said on Monday that “appropriate action” had been takenĪgainst the intern, though she could not confirm if the individual was You’d have toĪsk the station where received the names.” Policy and was also outside the scope of his authority. Doing so was in violation of our long standing “He was asked by a legitimate news outlet to confirm the names “The intern was not the originator of the names,” NTSB spokeswoman Kelly Nantel told The Hill in anĮmail. The NTSB has admitted that the names were mistakenly confirmed by an intern, but the agency said it was not the original source. The names “Captain Sum Ting Wong,” “Wi Tu Lo,” “Ho Lee Fuk” and “Bang Ding Ow” were broadcast on a San Francisco television station. The plane crash killed three people.The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says the fake, racially insensitive names for the pilots of the Asiana Airlines plane that crashed last weekend did not come from them. Asiana claimed “The reputation of the four pilots and of the company had been seriously damaged by this report.”Īlthough the fake names were confirmed by the summer intern at the NTSB, the actual origin of the hoax was never determined. Soon after, the NTSB announced that it had fired a summer intern over the incident. Asiana ultimately sued KTVU-TV to ‘strongly respond to its racially discriminatory report’ and the station dismissed at least three veteran producers over the on-air gaffe. “Earlier today, in response to an inquiry from a media outlet, a summer intern acted outside the scope of his authority when he erroneously confirmed the names of the flight crew on the aircraft.” ![]() The names were: Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk and Bang Ding Ow. After the station returned from a break Campbell read an on-air correction but the damage was already done. The clip went viral worldwide, seeming to receive equal parts anger and amusement.īy day’s end, the NTSB issued its own apology for “ inaccurate and offensive names that were mistakenly confirmed” to KTVU. At least four people reportedly read the false names before anchor Tori Campbell read them during a broadcast. Believing they had received verification from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), producers at the Fox affiliate released the names of four (fictional) pilots from the disaster. Newscaster Pranked with Fake Asian Pilot Names in Plane Crash – #TBTĪp– We begin our discussion of humor from the past with a look back at the prank played on San Francisco news station KTVU after the crash of an Asiana Airlines flight in 2013.
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