A Bay Area television station is in hot water for broadcasting false and racist names of crew members of the Asiana Boeing 777 that crashed at San Francisco International Airport.
According to the Hollywood Reporter:
Bay Area TV station KTVU, whose initial video footage of the Boeing 777 crash that left three dead and many wounded on Sunday was carried by major networks, is in hot water for falsely reporting the names of the Asiana Airlines pilots.
The news outlet has subsequently apologized for the report but maintained that those names were confirmed by "an NTSB official in the agency’s Washington, D.C., office," a statement on the station's website read.
The NTSB did confirm that they were the source for the names, but they originated from a summer intern.
See this story for the NTSB's apology.
Yes, this is definitely going into the Ron Burgundy Hall of Fame!
Here is the actual broadcast:
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