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Korean News Station Pokes Fun at KTVU with Fake American Pilot Names After Southwest Airlines Landing Gear Failure « slothed

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You probably remember KTVU’s royal eff up with reading obviously fake Asian names for the pilots of the Asiana crash. Names like “Wi To Lo” and “Ho Lee Fuk”.

It looks like a Korean news agency is having some fun at KTVU’s expense. After the landing gear failure of the Southwest flight at LGA they showed this graphic with American pilot names “Captain Kent Parker Wright”, “Co-Captain Wyatt Wooden Workman”.

They even went as far as making up fake names for people to interview. Flight instructor “Heywood U. Flye-Moore” and skeptical passenger “Macy Lawyers”.

Well played Korean TV, well played.

Ha! good ones. :D

Touché

Cool. And I bet no one is planning to sue.

Ya, Asiana suing the news station for "ruining their reputation"- LOL as if their pilot's inability to land the plane in one piece didn't ruin it already.

rjp

HTF would Koreans understand those joke names? Most of the ones living here don't have a great handle on English, unless of course they were born here. I would think that the names would have to be in Korean? Or was that a USA station that caters to Korean-Americans?

I thought that the funniest was the headline in the Daily News(?) that said, "Fright 214". :D

Yeah, that SOB didn't do much for the national stereotypes about *machinery operating skilz*. :eek::D

Asiana dropped the lawsuit when they realized the bad publicity they were getting over it far outweighed anything they might win, if anything at all.

Maybe they can complete the circle and fire an intern!

Can we get them to join PP PARF?? We need some humor over there.

No...

Asiana threatened to sue, but dropped the idea the next day.