Ho Lee Fuk (2013年旧事)

San Francisco plane crash: TV station duped into giving racist, false names of pilots by NTSB intern

By DAVID BOROFF and BETH STEBNER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 12, 2013 AT 5:33 PM

 
Oakland TV station KTVU was duped into giving racist names for the pilots of Flight 214.

An Oakland TV station was apparently duped into giving racist, incorrect names for the pilots of the Boeing 777 that crash landed at a San Francisco airport on Saturday.

Anchor Tori Campbell of KTVU said on the air Friday that the Asiana jet crew, flying from Seoul, consisted of "Captain Sum Ting Wong," "Wi Tu Lo," "Ho Lee Fuk," and "Bang Ding Ow."

"The NTSB has confirmed these are the names of the pilots on board Flight 214 when it crashed," Campbell said during the noon report. "We are working to determine what roles each of them played during the landing on Saturday."

Two Chinese schoolgirls died during the Boeing 777 crash. A third passenger died Friday from injuries sustained in the crash.
 
The station later apologized with Campbell saying on the air: "These names were not accurate despite an NTSB official confirming them this morning. We apologize for this error."

The NTSB confirmed to the Daily News in a statement issued Friday evening that a summer intern -- and not an NTSB official -- mistakenly confirmed the names of those on the doomed flight.

Fire crews work the crash site of Asiana Flight 214. The plane crashed on the afternoon of Saturday, July 6.
 
They said the intern "acted outside the scope of his authority when he erroneously confirmed the names of the flight crew on the aircraft."
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NTSB spokesperson Kelly Nantel said in a statement that the independent government agency "does not release or confirm the names of crewmembers or people involved in transportation accidents to the media."

Anchor Tori Campbell apologized on the air after listing the names earlier in the day.  

She concluded: "Appropriate actions will be taken to ensure that such a serious error is not repeated."
Two teenage Chinese schoolgirls died in the crash, and a third victim, a Chinese child, was pronounced dead late Friday afternoon.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating whether pilot error is one of the possible causes of the crash.

 

 

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