![]() We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” ![]() My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. But pilots and some aviation experts have worried that the information is leading the public to jump to wrong conclusions, unnecessarily ramping up pressure on the South Korea-based airline and its pilots.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: The NTSB says its hand has been forced somewhat by the Internet age, where misinformation and conspiracy theories can spread widely and quickly when official information is not forthcoming. The NTSB, which is typically circumspect in its investigations, releasing information slowly and over months, has provided an unprecedented volume of crucial information to the public in the past week. Yet the controversy also comes amid an investigation that has already angered some in the aviation community. ![]() "The company is reviewing taking legal action against both KTVU-TV and the NTSB." "The reputation of the four pilots and of the company had been seriously damaged by this report," the airline said in a statement. The report was so offensive that Asiana might have weighed legal action regardless. It remains unclear how KTVU got the list of fake names or why the NTSB intern confirmed the names as true. While KTVU called the NTSB to confirm the names, it managed only to reach a summer intern, who falsely affirmed the veracity of the report, both KTVU and the NTSB say. KTVU officials have said that they did not sound out the names before airing the report, nor did they carry out adequate fact-checking. One of the pilot names reported by KTVU, for instance, was "Wi Tu Lo." KTVU on Friday reported what it thought were the names of the Asiana pilots, but the names were clearly fabrications intended as crude phonetic jokes. But the airline is considering legal action against the two organizations, CNN reports. The plane crash killed three people.Both the National Transportation Safety Board and KTVU-TV of Oakland, Calif., have apologized for a mistake that led the television station to broadcast incorrect – and racially insensitive – names of the pilots of Asiana Flight 214, which crashed at San Francisco airport July 6, killing three. Asiana claimed “The reputation of the four pilots and of the company had been seriously damaged by this report.”Īlthough the fake names were confirmed by the summer intern at the NTSB, the actual origin of the hoax was never determined. Soon after, the NTSB announced that it had fired a summer intern over the incident. Asiana ultimately sued KTVU-TV to ‘strongly respond to its racially discriminatory report’ and the station dismissed at least three veteran producers over the on-air gaffe. “Earlier 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.” The names were: Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk and Bang Ding Ow. After the station returned from a break Campbell read an on-air correction but the damage was already done. The clip went viral worldwide, seeming to receive equal parts anger and amusement.īy day’s end, the NTSB issued its own apology for “ inaccurate and offensive names that were mistakenly confirmed” to KTVU. At least four people reportedly read the false names before anchor Tori Campbell read them during a broadcast. Believing they had received verification from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), producers at the Fox affiliate released the names of four (fictional) pilots from the disaster. Newscaster Pranked with Fake Asian Pilot Names in Plane Crash – #TBTĪp– We begin our discussion of humor from the past with a look back at the prank played on San Francisco news station KTVU after the crash of an Asiana Airlines flight in 2013.
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