Sum Ting Wong

Asiana Airlines Flight 214

San Francisco television station KTVU fell victim to a prank which led news anchor Tori Campbell to report the names of the pilots as "Captain Sum Ting Wong," "Wi Tu Lo," "Ho Lee Fuk," and "Bang Ding Ow," in the immediate aftermath of the crash. Viewers quickly realized that these "names" were phonetic double entendres for "something's wrong," "we're too low," "holy fuck," and the onomatopoeia of crash sounds, respectively.

The prank was described as racist and offensive, and led to the firing of three veteran KTVU producers. While the source of these joke names remains unclear, the NTSB admitted in a statement that one of its summer interns had confirmed the erroneous names when they were stated by the news station.

KTVU president and general manager Tom Raponi said “We sincerely regret the error and took immediate action to apologize, both in the newscast where the mistake occurred, as well as on our website and social media sites. Nothing is more important to us than having the highest level of accuracy and integrity, and we are reviewing our procedures to ensure this type of error does not happen again.”

Sum Ting Wong is a part of a series on fucked up Videos
(mostly found on youtube)

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Sum Ting Wong

Asiana Airlines Flight 214

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