Asiana Airlines is planning to sue Oakland's local news station KTVU television and the National Transportation Safety Board over pilot name blunder.
Asiana Airlines is planning a legal case against Oakland's KTVU new channel and the National Transportation Safety Board for broadcasting incorrect and misspelled names of four pilots of Flight 214 that crashed last week in San Francisco, according to CNN News.
The names of the four pilots revealed to the news station by a summer intern at the NTSB, phonetically spelled out as "Something Wrong" and "We Too Low" were read by the KTVU's news anchor at a noon broadcast Friday. According to the airlines, NTSB and KTVU were responsible for damaging the reputation of the four pilots and the company. The airlines planned to take the matter to court.
The news anchor, NTSB and KTVU apologized to Asiana Airlines for the error.
"Regarding the KTVU-TV's demeaning report of the pilots on July 12, ASIANA Airlines is reviewing possible legal action against KTVU-TV and the NTSB," the airline said in a statement. "The reputation of the four pilots and of the company had been seriously damaged by this report. The company is reviewing taking legal action against both KTVU-TV and the NTSB."
The identity of the summer intern, who confirmed the names to the news channel before it went on air, remains unclear, but NTSB denies it was the intern's fault.
Asiana Airlines confirmed the identity of the pilot who was flying Boeing 777 as Lee Kang-Kuk, CNN reports. The Flight 214 crash resulted in the death of three passengers and more than 180 were injured. The plane was carrying 291 passengers and 16 crew members.
