NTSB statement on erroneous confirmation of crew names (because of "summer intern")

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Last edited Sat Jul 13, 2013, 02:45 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: NTSB

The National Transportation Safety Board apologizes for inaccurate and offensive names that were mistakenly confirmed as those of the pilots of Asiana flight 214, which crashed at San Francisco International Airport on July 6.

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 NTSB does not release or confirm the names of crewmembers or people involved in transportation accidents to the media. We work hard to ensure that only appropriate factual information regarding an investigation is released and deeply regret today's incident.

Appropriate actions will be taken to ensure that such a serious error is not repeated.

Read more: http://www.ntsb.gov/news/2013/130712.html

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Wow, that summer intern can enjoy working at Wal-Mart, I guess.

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[AsahinaKimi]

1. " he erroneously confirmed the names of the flight crew on the aircraft. " erroneously? really...??

No, this was clearly intentional.

[SkyDaddy7]

30. EXACTLY!!

However, to me this highlights the false idea we have a healthy news media in this country! Regardless if the President confirmed such disgusting racist names a REAL JOURNALIST working for a respected media organization would have caught this & never let it get on air...Instead we have a news media that simply repeats anything they hear without bothering to do even a tad bit of REAL JOURNALISM!!

[NYC_SKP]

2. So, the intern confirmed, but who made up the names for him to confirm?

There's more trouble afoot...

[RufusTFirefly]

3. Two guesses: Edward Snowden or Ralph Nader

It's just gotta be one of them.

[Aviation Pro]

16. Capt Janks...

...this smells of his fuckwitedness.

[hexola]

4. Pilots names were reported hours after the crash - since when does NTSB confirm Korean citzen IDs

This doesn't add up - Why would the NTSB be the ones confirming anything about a Korean airline?

The pilots names were all over the media hours after the crash...

How this got by so many levels of scrutiny is unbelievable...

[gvstn]

5. Maybe the intern thought it was a prank call?

[presscac]

11. Winner ! ! ! We have a Winner ! ! !

Phone rings, intern answers. . .

This is Fox News in San Fran. . . We have the list of 4 captains on the recent crash and we need a confirm. . .

Now from what has been said, this "joke has been going around the aviation circuit for a few days. . . So maybe he's actually heard or seen it. . .

He hears the 4 names, rolls his eyes and says yes. . . hangs up the phone. . . Thinking his brother got somebody to crank him at "work'...

[DemoTex]

17. And Fox never heard the old newspaper axiom:

"Your mother may tell you that she loves you, but check it out."

[TheMadMonk]

21. Or too dense to realise it was a prank and just "nodded along". /nt

[krispos42]

6. *facepalm*

This sounds like something that originated on Fark.







*snicker*

Ho Lee Fuk

[notadmblnd]

8. I thought the funniest one was Bang Ding Ow

Wi Tu Lo was funny too, but Bang Ding Ow, just cracked me up.

[GliderGuider]

18. When I was doing my ab initio training on sailplanes quite a few years ago...

The instructor in the back seat watched my flying for a while, and then said, "I see you've been flying with our new Chinese instructor."
We didn't have a Chinese instructor at the club, so I said, "Who?"
To which he replied, "Wan Wing Lo."

So I leveled the wings...

[MADem]

19. Sum Ting Wong has been the centerpiece of thousands of racist jokes down the years.

All I can say is Sum Ting Wong, all right, that anyone fell for that.

[hlthe2b]

7. whoever was "supervising" that intern might well (rightfully) end up there too

Geebus!

[denverbill]

9. $100 says the intern was unpaid.

Which would be typical of American corporations nowadays. Fuck over the unpaid intern, blame the unpaid intern.

[Logic Dictates]

26. Fire the intern

They had no choice but to fire the intern. There were no janitors available.

[benld74]

10. I CALL BS on this! Pilot names were all over the news aftwer it happened.

WHY the need to call NTSB to confirm them?

AND then BELIEVE the names after?

CMON.

[hexola]

13. Whoever this itnern served...is likely to blame...

A bad email joke gone awry...

Some higher up is shaking in their shoes and hoping the intern thing sticks...

[icymist]

12. Holy crap! People died and what does our media do? Why make fun of the culture of the dead!

This is not very funny.

[cactusfractal]

22. WADR, the anchor was just reading what came up...

The delivery did not seem tongue-in-cheek nor the tone anything but matter of fact.

[benh57]

28. Um, you missed the point of this article

It wasn't the Media's fault at all. The NTSB confirmed the names!

[SoapBox]

14. I call bullshit on the intern thing...

This was some jackass dickhead, think'n that they were real funny, giving these names.

What a load of crap.

[blkmusclmachine]

15. Suuure. Just a "mistake."

Uh huh.

[6000eliot]

20. Because adult journalists couldn't figure this juvenile joke out.

[valerief]

23. We always thought the 1% controlled U.S. media. Come to learn it's summer interns

responsible for U.S. media!

The buck stops with interns, I guess. I wonder why summer interns don't pay themselves more.

[Rebellious Republican]

24. I see a trend here.....

Corporations have destroyed government for their own glutenous profits. College interns in key positions working for feds, Local police cutbacks rely on neighborhood watch volunteers, National intelligence agencies can only afford to hire high school grads with our national security.

Have I missed anything?

[B Stieg]

25. Yeah, I just bet it was an "intern."

They always get the blame!

[warrprayer]

27. It would have been funny

... had it not been made concerning an accident that took the lives of some beautiful young people, seen right before the "joke".

[YOHABLO]

29. These people aren't jounalists they're teleprompter readers .. and really stupid.

[Dash87]

31. Blaming an intern is beyond pathetic. Nobody checks his work?

This is total bs and probably not true. Blaming an intern, probably unpaid, is cowardly and ridiculous, considering it was probably not even the intern's fault.