San Carlos Sounds Off on Asiana Lawsuit Against KTVU

The Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash in SFO has been on the minds of many but recent incidents, including an on-air gaffe by a local television station and subsequent threat of a lawsuit by the airline have San Carlos residents heated.

Asiana Airlines confirmed Monday that it would sue KTVU for incorrectly naming the pilots in the crash that killed three people.

We asked our readers this: 

Asiana Airlines is suing KTVU over offensive, and fake, pilot names read on air July 12. Do you think this is the right move for Asiana? Or is there a better way to handle this? Suggestions?

This is what San Carlos had to say:

• Chip: I think Asiana should worry more about their reputation being damaged by flying a triple seven into the ground, more than a few words having been read over the air. Wag the dog much?
• Richard: LET ME GUESS? their atttorneys name is "wii su u"
• Phyllis: I think it's an overreaction and detracts from the real issues. Perhaps that's their intent, but it really looks petty in the larger scheme.
• Patty: Shouldn't they be suing the NTSB? They are the ones that erroneously released the list of names (made up by their summer intern).
• James: Richard, comments like that aren't funny. As someone who grew up in RWC hearing "haha aren't Asian names funny" all the time as a kid, every day in school, it makes you feel like a foreigner and an excluded person in your own community. It's offensive and not cool.
  
  The KTVU mistake was doubly offensive because the names were not just a racist take on Asian names, but ALSO a really insensitive joke about the crash and the injured and the dead because the fake names actually tell the story of the crash in a really callous way if you read them out line by line.