San Francisco plane crash: TV station apologises for broadcasting fake racially offensive pilot names

July 13th, 2013

Peter Nolan

KTVU
followed up the broadcast with a statement on its website claiming they
had not phonetically sounded out the names.

The NTSB also apologised for the “inaccurate and offensive” error, blaming it
on a summer intern who “acted outside the scope of his authority when he
erroneously confirmed the names of the flight crew on the aircraft.”

Neither organisation commented on where the hoax names originated from.

Confirmation that a third passenger died came as authorities confirmed
16-year-old Ye Men Yuan, one of the two Chinese teenagers who died on the
day of the disaster, was hit by a fire engine on its way to extinguishing
the Boeing 777, raising the possibility that she could have survived only to
die in the chaotic aftermath.

Her close friend Wang Linjia, also 16, was among a group of passengers who did
not get immediate medical assistance, with rescuers not spotting her until
14 minutes after the crash.

The third girl died on Friday morning. She had been in critical condition
since the accident.

“It is a very, very sad day today,” said Dr Geoffrey Manley, San Francisco
General’s chief of neurosurgery. “We have done everything we could.”

As well as those killed, more than 180 were injured, 49 of them seriously,
when the flight came in too low, hit a sea wall, and crash landed before
catching fire.

Nearly a week after the crash, the investigation indicates the pilots, a
trainee and his instructor, failed to realise until too late that the
aircraft was dangerously low and flying too slow.

Nothing so far indicates any problems with the plane’s engines, computers or
automated systems.

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