An intern at the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed to a Bay Area television station fake, racially insensitive names of the pilots flying the ill-fated Asiana Airlines Flight 214.
The segment on Friday at noon that referred to two of the pilots as “Captain Sum Ting Wong,” and “Wi Tu Lo,” has gone viral and drawn heavy criticism on the Internet.
Late Friday, the NTSB apologized for the incident. “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 said in a statement.
“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,” the statement added.
It remains unclear how the station got the names in the first place.
More at the LA Times
The intern reportedly has job offers from the IRS, DHS and as an Obama spokesperson.
I see Jay Carney’s replacement.
Well, well, well. We have a private in the US Army who had access to super secret stuff, a contractor who downloaded super secret stuff and an intern issuing highly sensitive news releases. One might think that we have a community organizer in charge.
Racist!
It is more like gallows humor.
Every thing has to resolve to some extra racial sensitivity except for whites.
God, grow up, get over it, and find out why the plane crashed.
I actually thought it was funny… God, cannot we not laugh anymore without throwing a negative into it?
“The intern reportedly has job offers from the IRS, DHS and as an Obama spokesperson.” – This is funny too!! LOL LOL
Obama made it illegal for interns to be UNpaid.
So, I have to ask, how much did WE pay this insensitive boob?
And what connections did he have to get this cushy job?