Asiana Pilot Names: Airline to Sue Broadcaster, Says Report

The wreckage of Asiana Flight 214, which crashed on Saturday, July 6, 2013, seen at San Francisco International Airport, in San Francisco, Friday, July 12, 2013. Two people were killed and dozens of others injured although most suffered minor injuries. Investigators have said the plane came in too low and slow. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Asiana pilot names: Asiana Airlines said Monday it would sue KTVU, a CNN affiliate in Oakland, Calif., according to Fox News.

KTVU apologized after its broadcaster read off false names for the pilots involved in Asiana Flight 214’s crash in San Francisco that killed three and injured more than 180. The names have been criticized as racially offensive, phonetically reading as “something wrong,” “way too low,” and such, reported CNN.

Asiana charges that KTVU’s broadcast damaged its reputation, according to Fox News.

The station had verified the names with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) before the broadcast. NTSB also apologized, saying a summer intern errored in verifying the names. NTSB said it does not, in general practice, verify the names of people involved in accidents.

The intern did not create the names, but simply verified them. It is unclear who created the names.

Asiana spokeswoman Lee Hyomin told Fox News that the airline would sue KTVU, not NTSB, because it was the television station’s report that did the damage.