By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 09:40 EST, 14 July 2013 | UPDATED: 07:12 EST, 15 July 2013 Asiana Airlines has confirmed it is taking legal action against the TV station which used false and racist names for four pilots on board the fatal plane crash. The embattled airline claims its reputation has been 'badly damaged' after San Francisco's KTVU broadcast fake and insulting names, such as 'Captain Sum Ting Wong', with a graphic of the phony titles. Also in the airline's sights is the National Transportation Safety Board whose summer intern erroneously confirmed the names of the flight crew on Asiana flight 214 when it crashed at San Francisco International Airport earlier this month.
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Asiana Airlines will take legal action against KTVU-TV which broadcast fake names of four pilots on board the fatal plane crash
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The airline may also sue the National Transportation Safety Board, whose summer intern confirmed the names
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The airline said the prank 'badly damaged' its reputation
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