SFO plane crash captains names - they really read it on the air

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OAKLAND (CBS SF) – A Bay Area TV news report which listed racially-offensive, fake Asiana Airline pilot names has cost three veteran staff members their jobs. KTVU-TV has fired investigative producer Roland De Wolk, special projects producer Cristina Gastelu and producer Brad Belstock over their roles in the phony news report on the names of the pilots involved in the crash of Asiana flight 214 at San Francisco International Airport.

The firings were first reported by Bay Area media blogger Rich Lieberman. The July 12th KTVU report turned into a Internet sensation with clips of the broadcast quickly spreading across YouTube and social media. KTVU’s parent company, Cox Communications has recently sent copyright infringement notices to YouTube demanding that the video clips be removed.

Sources told KCBS and KPIX 5 political reporter Phil Matier that the fake names – which had been floating around the Internet days prior to the TV report – were emailed to KTVU by an expert source who had provided information to the station in the past. “One of the real ironies of this, two of the names of the pilots had been in the news for days before this,” Matier said, adding it was now clear the e-mail was not a hoax targeting the station or a joke that had been circulating internally. It is unclear whether the expert source might have forwarded the e-mail as a joke, he said. “I’m not sure we’re ever going to get the complete answers to that because lawyers are involved right now,” said Matier. “And you’ve got corporate coming in from Cox Communications working this thing. You had a systematic failure, alright? It’s called stupid.”


http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/07/25/ktvu-fires-staffers-over-fake-asiana-pilot-names-fiasco/

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/grantmartin/2013/12/11/ntsb-releases-terrifying-new-footage-showing-asiana-214-crash-at-san-francisco-airport/

NTSB Releases Terrifying New Footage Showing Asiana 214 Crash At San Francisco Airport

Five months after the crash of an Asiana Airlines 777 at San Francisco International Airport, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is still in the process of sorting out the events of that day. This week, they’re conducting an investigative panel, including testimony from witnesses and also analysis from internal and external technical resources. As part of that investigative process, the agency is releasing new details on the nature of the crash, including the above video showing the actual impact of the Boeing 777.

The video, linked to Twitter from Flightglobal editor David Kaminski-Morrow and apparently clipped from the currently ongoing NTSB hearings, is terrifying. Though the impact takes place far from the camera’s position, one can clearly see the aircraft approaching the runway and dropping out of view, potentially to a point lower than required to land. Upon impact, the  tail section breaks off and the main fuselage flips over and careens onto the runway, leaving a cloud of dust and debris behind. Investigators at the hearing describe the destruction as such:



““THE TAIL OF THE AIRCRAFT BROKE OFF AT THE AFT PRESSURE BULKHEAD. THE AIRPLANE SLID ALONG THE RUNWAY BEFORE THE FUSELAGE LIFTED INTO AN APPROXIMATE 30 DEGREE NOSE DOWN ANGLE AND PIVOTED ABOUT 330 DEGREES BEFORE COMING TO REST OFF THE LEFT SIDE OF THE RUNWAY”

Other details of the event are surfacing as the hearing continues. The NTSB is releasing updates regularly on its Twitter feed, while a live feed of the hearings is being broadcast in several languages on the site, and more details will surface as the hearing concludes.