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At KTVU, “someone has to go” over Asiana gaffe

As an investigation permeates between KTVU and their parent company Cox Media Group regarding last week’s Asiana Airlines gaffe, the search is on for the staff member who will take the blame for the mistake.

KTVU gaffe gets Taiwanese animation treatment

Next Media Animation, the Taiwanese animation studio known for its hilarious YouTube recreations of worldly events, has produced its take on the KTVU pilot identification gaffe that went viral last week.

“Colbert Report” lampoons KTVU Asiana gaffe

Stephen Colbert has called out San Francisco-area FOX affiliate KTVU-TV for the station’s gaffe last week in which it erroneously identified four pilots aboard an airliner that crashed earlier in the month.


Asiana Airlines will sue KTVU over reporting error

Asiana Airlines says it will go ahead with a defamation lawsuit against a California television station that erroneously reported four perceived racist names as pilots aboard a plane that crashed in San Francisco.

Exclusive: NTSB intern at center of KTVU gaffe identified

The National Transportation Safety Board has relieved a student of his internship after an embarrassing mistake involving a California television station and a plane that crashed at San Francisco International Airport last week.


KTVU erroneously names Asiana Flight 214 pilots

San Francisco Bay Area FOX affiliate KTVU-TV has apologized after erroneously reporting the names of four pilots aboard an Asiana Airlines jet that crashed at an area airport on Saturday.