(Gawker) Bay Area news station KTVU just reported that the pilots of Asiana's disastrous flight 214 were the crack team of "Sum Ting Wong," "Wi Tu Lo," "Ho L Overused but still funny. During a live newscast Friday, KTVU Channel 2 reported the names of the flight crew as: 'Sum Ting Wong,' 'Wi Tu Lo,' 'Ho Lee Fuk,' and 'Bang Ding Ow' Author of the article: Alexandra Bosanac During the noon broadcast, KTVU claimed that the pilots in charge of the Boeing 777 were Captain Sum Ting Wong (something wrong), Wi Tu Lo (we too low), Ho Lee Fuk (holy fuck), and Bang Ding Ow They ran with those names and reported them as: "Sum Ting Wong," "Wi Tu Lo," "Ho Lee Fuk," and "Bang Ding Ow". The best part is that the anchor claimed the NTSB confirmed the names, which we're DENVER — It was an epic failure for a California TV station when, during the noon news, KTVU claimed it had just learned the names of the four pilots aboard Asiana flight 214, which crashed Last Friday, the Bay Area Fox affiliate erroneously ran a report during its noon broadcast that incorrectly identified the names of the four Asiana Airlines flight 214 plane crash as Captain Sum KTVU's Channel Two broadcast the “confirmed” pilot names as Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Low, Ho Lee Fuk, Band Ding Ow. Exactly how this list did not immediately raise red flags remains unclear. Related: Asiana will beef up pilot training on new jets; plans to sue KTVU TIL that following an Asiana airline crash in 2012, a summer intern working at the NTSB "confirmed" the names of the flight crew to a local TV news station as Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk, and Bang Ding Ow. The intern and 3 producers from the station were later fired These—"Sum Ting Wong," "Wi Tu Lo," "Ho Lee Fuk," and "Bang Ding Ow"—are not their names. The newscaster's credulous reading puts it over the top. This aired just after noon, local time. The station also issued a mea culpa on its web site outlining the mistakes it made in handling the report:. We made several mistakes when we received this information. First, we never read the A local Fox affiliate's bid to erase its 'Ho Lee Fuk' gaffe from YouTube Campbell said live on-air that the flight's captains were "Sum Ting Wong," "Wi Tu Lo," "Ho Lee Fuk," and "Bang Ding Ow - Watch more great videoNews for Ho Lee Fuk & Wi Tu Lo KTVU Flight 214 KTVU's epic Asiana 214 failDigitalJournal.com - 10 hours ago. Sum Ting Wong's name comes from an incident in 2013, when KTVU in San Francisco aired stereotypical Chinese-sounding gag names of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 pilots including "Sum Ting Wong" (something wrong), "Wi Tu Lo" (we [are] too low), "Ho Lee Fuk" (holy fuck), and "Bang Ding Ow" (onomatopoeias of sounds made when crash landing). KTVU issued a second on-air apology Friday evening, explaining that "we made several mistakes," including that "we never read the names out loud, phonetically sounding them out." But it's hard to sum ting wong = something wrong ho lee fuk = holy fuck wi tu lo (wai tu lo is better) = way too low bang ding ow = no idea what this mean,could mean bang ding and ouch. At least three producers have been fired by San Francisco Fox affiliate KTVU as a result of the on-air racial gaffe that incorrectly identified the pilots of the Asiana Flight 214 crash. Co-Pilot: Wi Tu Lo We're too low. Both: Ho Lee Fuk Holy Fuck. Bang Ding Ow. Noises generated while the plane Crashes. EDIT: coming full circle now.. Reply Holy fuk Bitcoin hasn’t even really crashed (can go down much more) that hard and aero is already gone down as hell. Just damn lmao, like honestly I’ll be lying if I said this ain’t scary not even the price rn but how low it may go TV Station PUNKED: Reports Asiana Pilots as 'Sum Ting Wong', 'Wi Tu Lo', 'Ho Lee Fuk', 'Bang Ding Ow'
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