Asiana to sue over crash names gaffe

This is the funniest thing I've read in a long time and,

Have IQs in American media dropped this badly? (I know its a FOX affiliate, but still..)

Media IQ? Is that an oxymoron?

Hopefully the wannabe comedian who made this up never loses any children in an accident like the parents of the two Chinese kids. Rest in peace to the three victims.

My first instinct was to laugh, but I was then immediately stricken by horror at just how stupid the whole thing is. The desire to be first to break a news as a news channel in understandable, but this takes the media's dumbness to a whole new level. It is funny, but given the overall context I feel bad at this poor joke.

Give the woman a break. She at least pronounced 'Fuk' as 'fook'

What's worse is someone at the NTSB verified the names...

Just read what's on the card, right?

Okay, hang on... so he was “acting in good faith and trying to be helpful" despite the NTSB claiming it neither confirms nor releases the names of pilots when the guy confirmed and released the names?

No-one spotted Chinese names for a Korean crew? That is just embarrassing.

Asiana, however, said the incident had “seriously tarnished the dignity of the four pilots as well as the company”.

Ummmm, not to mention tarnishing the appearance of the jet and killing people who expected to be delivered safely by what appears to be pilots who probably made stupid mistakes.

nandakandamanda: "No-one spotted Chinese names for a Korean crew? That is just embarrassing."

Whether or not you are being serious, neither the incident nor the joke is funny.

scoobydoo: "Ummmm, not to mention tarnishing the appearance of the jet and killing people who expected to be delivered safely by what appears to be pilots who probably made stupid mistakes."

Asiana will have its fair share of lawsuits when all is said and done, to be sure, and rightly so, and them wording the reasoning behind the lawsuit as sounds foolish, but it is INCREDIBLY hard to believe no one looked at these names and didn't see them for what they were before airing them. They either did it intentionally, which is wrong, or they didn't bother to look, which is negligent.

It sounds worse when you read it like this.

Captain: Sum Ting Wong Wi Tu Lo Ho Lee Fuk Bang Ding Ow

When I saw the video on youtube, I thought that it had to be a joke and someone was pranking. Nope. The newscaster actually read it. I wonder how many eyes passed over this before it went on the air.

rightfully so, i'm surprised they haven't offered up the culprit

damaged reputation...as usual koreans will never admit guilt or any wrongdoing. They blame the airport controller, Boeing, and whatever they can blame but never themselves. And yes, they started to call the flight attendants as heroes now when reports have said that more than half of them were panicking with the pilot urging the passengers to stay on their seats while the plane is being engulf by fire.

ASIANA should make an apology first to their injured passengers and for the trouble they caused. A korean TV anchor should also be fired when she made a comment that "luckily, none of the dead passengers were Koreans."

Maybe KTVU used "The Daily Show" as one of its sources.

Smells like Asiana is grasping for a way to recoup what are sure to be huge losses. Good luck with that.

“Sum Ting Wong,” “Wi Tu Lo,” “Ho Lee Fuk,” and “Bang Ding Ow.”

Let's read the news in Gangnam style...la la la... That's gross, but that's really small stuff. Even reporting it making too much honor to the lame comedian.

the incident had “seriously tarnished the dignity of the four pilots as well as the company”.

Incident ? No accident. Besides the pun, the news was Asiana failed big time.

Asiana will have its fair share of lawsuits

Yes, I'd think they'd have all their lawyers busy with that.

NTSB is at fault. The TV station called them to confirm the names and they were confirmed. Are they now supposed to start second guessing every confirmation they get from official government agencies? Perhaps the second confirmation will also be wrong. Should they go for a third? A fourth?

and that the intern did not realize they were offensive and was “acting in good faith and trying to be helpful.”

Let's talk about this for a minute. Whether the intern realized or not that the names were offensive is irrelevant. They were not the correct names and the intern confirmed them. How did the intern manage to confirm names that were not even correct? How can this be considered 'acting in good faith'?

Perhaps the TV station even thought the names were strange and that is why they called NTSB. I have come across a lot of names that at first glance could be mistaken for offensive words, but they were real names of real people.

@pukey2: Check each word of names in either Chinese or Korean language, instead of English pronounced by an anchor person. Also check what fook sound means in these language is. Since this is Korean airline, don't worry about Chinese language.

Asiana can sue but it is not going to win. This is just an attempt to divert attention from the crash and build popular support from the Korean public because of the insult.

if this involved stereotypical/racist usage of black peoples' names, then there would be hell to pay. but, since this involved asians, the western media won't really make a big fuss over it. give it a few days, and all would be forgotten.

Suzuri and magle are right, everybody in USA is already talking something else than this lwsuit.