Oakland’s KTVU news anchor Tori Campbell reported Friday that the National Transportation Safety Board had confirmed the names of the crashed 777 Asiana Flight 214 pilots as Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk and Bang Ding Ow.
Apparently Campbell was given the script with those names just before the broadcast and she did not have a chance to read it beforehand. When they discovered that they had been the victims of a prank, Campbell and KTVU officials apologized profusely both on the air and online for broadcasting the racially-insensitive names, but insisted they had been given the names by the NTSB.
After several denials by the NTSB, the agency finally admitted that it had submitted the bogus names to KTVU. The NTSB blamed the hoax on a summer intern. It also apologized and explained that the intern did not realize the names were offensive and was "acting in good faith and trying to be helpful" [to the media].
It appears as though the NTSB intern forgot to mention that Asiana Airlines flight instructor Wae Tu Slo was also in the cockpit of Flight 214.
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