Asiana Airlines considering legal action after - CNN.com
Really? Asiana trying to polarise support? Guess it might offset their huge insurance burden and counter suits for corporate manslaughter.
Frankly, sounds like an overreaction. That joke / prank may have been silly but I didn't think it was horrendously out of place or offensive or anything (compared to the baseline on american TV). The racial / nationalistic angle was perhaps offensive to some, but it's not as if these pilots are blame free.
Every time some dude believes his GPS and drives himself onto railway tracks we make fun of them. Or people that do stupid stuff while yapping away on cellphones.
These Asiana pilots aren't exactly beyond reproach. I don't know why everyone wants to treat them so reverently.
In any case I don't know how they well make a legal case that the pilots' reputations were hurt, if all the TV station used were these silly pseudonyms.