Filed by Mark Liberman under Language and the mediaĪre you sure that Ki is his real name, sounds a lot like Ki wants to Sue.
It's amazing that this made it onto the air. It was not immediately clear Sunday what legal recourse the airline was mulling. Suh said that Asiana Airlines is, for that reason, “considering legal action” against KTVU and the NTSB. The Friday report on Oakland TV station KTVU, which used four erroneous and racially charged names for the pilots of Flight 214, seriously damaged the reputation of the four pilots and the company, according to Ki Won Suh, a public relations representative for Asiana Airlines.
Heh.")Īccording to Daniel Arkin, " Asiana Airlines considering legal action over racially offensive fake pilot names", NBC News :Īsiana Airlines is weighing legal action after the National Transportation Safety Board mistakenly confirmed to a California television station fake, racially offensive names for the pilots of the flight that crashed last week in San Francisco. (Presumably the "confirmation" was something like "Good one, man! Oh yeah, right, those were totally the names, no question about it. In case you haven't already seen it, here's a news story that KTVU-TV in San Francisco ran on Friday, purporting to give the names of the four pilots of the Asiana plane that crashed at SFO on July 6:Īpparently the linguistically and ethnically offensive joke started as a newsroom prank, but someone took it seriously, and a summer intern at the FAA "confirmed" the names over the phone.
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