anchor read out four made-up names of jet's pilots
Asiana Airlines has said it is considering legal action against a Bay
Area television station and a federal agency after a news anchor was
tricked into reading out fake names mocking the pilots of the flight
that crashed as it landed in San Francisco.
"The reputation of the four pilots and of the company had been
seriously damaged by this report. The company is reviewing taking
legal action against both KTVU-TV and the NTSB," the South Korean
carrier said in a statement.
It follows an incident on Friday when a news anchor at the Fox
affiliate told viewers that it had learned the names of the pilots,
unaware they were in fact crude, racially insensitive made-up names.
It then emerged that before the broadcast the channel had confirmed
the information with the National Transportation Safety Board, the
government body responsible for investigating aviation accidents.
The NTSB issued a statement apologising for the "inaccurate and
offensive names" and saying that "a summer intern acted outside the
scope of his authority when he erroneously confirmed the names of the
flight crew on the aircraft". KTVU also apologised in a statement and
said it is "reviewing our procedures".
The made-up names were deemed all the more offensive given that three
people died and about 180 were hurt when the Boeing 777 hit a seawall
and crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport at the end of
its flight from Seoul.
On Saturday, the third victim – whom San Francisco General Hospital
officials said died of her injuries the previous morning - was named
on Saturday as Liu Yipeng, a Chinese student.
Police confirmed on Friday that Ye Meng Yuan, one of two other Chinese
girls who were also killed in the incident, was run over by a fire
engine that responded to the crash. But it was not certain that this
was the cause of death.
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