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U.S. NTSB apologizes for gaffe over derogatory Asiana pilot names (TOO FUNNY!)
The Globe and Mail ^ | 7/13/2013 | Reuters

Posted on 07/13/2013 1:01:49 PM PDT by mkleesma

The National Transportation Safety Board apologized Friday after an intern mistakenly confirmed to a local television station racially offensive fake names for the pilots of an Asiana flight that crashed in San Francisco. “The National Transportation Safety Board apologizes for inaccurate and offensive names that were mistakenly confirmed as those of the pilots of Asiana flight 214, which crashed at San Francisco International Airport on July 6,” the NTSB said in a statement. “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 NTSB said.

The crash of the Boeing 777 plane resulted in the deaths of three teenage girls in a group of students from eastern China who were visiting the United States for a summer camp, one of whom died on Friday in the hospital. Over 180 passengers and crew members were injured.

On Friday, an anchor for Oakland, California, station KTVU read a list of the supposed names of the pilots of the South Korean carrier on its noon broadcast after an employee apparently called the NTSB seeking to verify them.

The names appear to mock the events of the crash. The prank names were: Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk and Bang Ding Ow.

(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...


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KEYWORDS: apology; asiana; bangdingow; flight214; holeefuk; humor; ntsb; sumtingwong; witulo
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I'm laughing uncontrollably as I write this...I think we all need a good laugh to break the tension today. Somebody hire that intern!
1 posted on 07/13/2013 1:01:49 PM PDT by mkleesma
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This seems to say they called up the NTSB, read the kid the names and he said yup, that’s correct.

Where did they get them in the first place?


2 posted on 07/13/2013 1:04:52 PM PDT by DManA
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Oh - in my haste, I must have misread it. I thought the intern gave them these names, as a prank.
Oops!


3 posted on 07/13/2013 1:06:31 PM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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Here's a YouTube of the broadcast. Hilarious!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C76T9_fThH0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

4 posted on 07/13/2013 1:08:29 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: mkleesma
YouTube

5 posted on 07/13/2013 1:13:10 PM PDT by Rio
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That intern will have the greatest resume entry ever!

“I pwned the MSM”


6 posted on 07/13/2013 1:15:07 PM PDT by bigbob
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Someone put some thought into this.. If you string the names in succession, they’re chronologically appropriate! LOL!!


7 posted on 07/13/2013 1:17:07 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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Someone put some thought into this.. If you string the names in succession, they’re chronologically appropriate! LOL!!

I know -- isn't that awesome! A friend posted a link to it on FB, and I was rolling for a couple hours just from the names, then I noticed if you do them in succession, they tell the story.

8 posted on 07/13/2013 1:20:40 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: mkleesma

That is funny! And I’ll bet no one thought it was racially offensive when someone came up with the name of Dewey Cheatham and Howe for a law firm.


9 posted on 07/13/2013 1:24:01 PM PDT by American Quilter (I believe the Benghazi whistleblowers.)
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The greatest prank of the century; totally believable the media and the government would be the sucker.


10 posted on 07/13/2013 1:26:42 PM PDT by budj (beam me up, scotty...)
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Ho Lee Fuk!

If some idiot at a tv news station called to confirm and they were that stupis, I would have said “ yeah sounds right” too. LOL


11 posted on 07/13/2013 1:27:45 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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Only in America!


12 posted on 07/13/2013 1:29:57 PM PDT by 353FMG ( I do not say whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
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No, no, no !!

It’s “Hoe Lee Fuke”

(Raffing leal hard light now)


13 posted on 07/13/2013 1:38:43 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: DManA

Sum Dum Goy came up with this.


14 posted on 07/13/2013 1:56:42 PM PDT by Argus
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To: mkleesma

I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time... Pre Obozo..

Thanks for posting!

My eyes are tearing!!


15 posted on 07/13/2013 2:01:18 PM PDT by WomBom ("I read Free Republic for the pictures")
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To: mkleesma

Shi Tin Pans


16 posted on 07/13/2013 3:05:58 PM PDT by The Good Doctor (Democracy is the only system where you can vote for a tax that you can avoid the obligation to pay.)
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Now everybody’s a crown.


17 posted on 07/13/2013 3:21:15 PM PDT by Corey Ohlis (Visualize Swirled Peas)
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I feel like e-mailing the TV station to see if they have Prince Albert In the Can ...
18 posted on 07/13/2013 3:59:52 PM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: Still Thinking

She pronounced it “Fook”, aw man!


19 posted on 07/13/2013 4:03:16 PM PDT by jughandle
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How STUPIT do you have to be to belive those names are real!!! And to the point you would read in on the air!!


20 posted on 07/13/2013 4:21:41 PM PDT by tophat9000 (American is Barack Oaken)
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