of asiana airlines says pilot names report damaged its reputation

Asiana Airlines is considering legal action after after an intern from the National Transportation Safety Board mistakenly confirmed to a television station racially offensive fake names for the pilots of the Asiana Airlines flight that crashed in San Francisco.

The bogus pilot names reported were: Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk and Bang Ding Ow.



The names of the actual Asiana Airlines pilots in the cockpit of the plane were released earlier this week as Lee Kang-kook and his co-pilot Lee Jeong-min.

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Asiana Airlines says bogus pilot names report damaged its reputation

Asiana Airlines said Sunday its reputation was damaged by a report on a San Francisco TV station that used bogus names and racially offensive names for four pilots on its plane that crashed earlier this month and is considering legal action.

An anchor for KTVU-TV read the names on the air Friday and then apologized after a break. The report was accompanied by a graphic with the phony names listed alongside a photo of the burned out plane. Video of the report has spread widely across the Internet since it was broadcast.

The National Transportation Safety Board has also apologized, saying a summer intern erroneously confirmed the names of the flight crew.

NTSB statement on erroneous confirmation of crew names