ASIAN PLANE CRASH PRANK NAMES FULL

The NTSB does not release or confirm the names of crewmembers or people involved in transportation accidents to the media.

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.Įarlier 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. NTSB statement on erroneous confirmation of crew names

ASIAN PLANE CRASH PRANK NAMES FULL

Here is the full NTSB statement on the erroneous Asiana pilots names: The National Transportation Safety Board later issued a statement apologizing for their error, bla,ing the incident on a summer intern that “acted outside the scope of his authority” and “erroneously confirmed” the names to the station. “Nothing is more important to us than having the highest level of accuracy and integrity, and we are reviewing our procedures to ensure this type of error does not happen again,” Tom Raponi, KTVU/KICU vice president and general manager, later said in a statement. These names were not accurate despite an NTSB official in Washington confirming them late this morning. The station later realized their mistake and announced, “Earlier in the newscast we gave some names of pilots involved in the Asiana Airlines crash. We are working to determine exactly what role each of them played during the landing. The NTSB has confirmed these are the names of the pilots on board Flight 214 when it crashed.

They are Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk and Bang Ding Ow.

KTVU has just learned the names of the four pilots who were on board the flight. We have new information now, also on the plane crash. Amazingly, the station had verified the list of names with the National Transportation Safety Board before airing! San Francisco television station KTVU fell victim to a heartless prank this week as they erroneously announced the names of the pilots of Asiana Flight 214 that crashed on Saturday as Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk and Bang Ding Ow.

Asian plane crash prank names