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 ...
Journalism majors are not mental giants - take a look at Chrissy Matthews.
Yeah, whoever pranked them should have spelled it “Phuk”. Then she probably would have pronounced it right.
Well, TV anchors are typically chosen more for their physical attributes (hair, teeth, boobs, etc.) then for their cerebrum. They have to be able to read and that’s about it. Plus, this is the Kalifornistan Bay area, which is no doubt a capital of affirmative action (lots of libs).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C76T9_fThH0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I’m still laughing at this hours later & don’t want to lose it — thanks, this was very helpful earlier today!
hehheh, great screen capture
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