Photo of the Day

An alert viewer managed to capture this image for perpetuity after a broadcasting gaffe on Friday:

E-Online reports:

Who knew Bart Simpson was working for the National Transportation Safety Board?
An anchor at Oakland-based Fox affiliate KTVU apologized today, as did the station, after reporting the fake—and offensive—names of the pilots onboard Asiana Flight 214 when it crashed Saturday while landing at San Francisco International Airport.
Needless to say, Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk and Bang Ding Ow were in no way involved. But the error was captured for posterity by vigilant viewers and subsequently splashed all over the Internet.
"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," Tom Rapioni, VP and general manager of KTVU/KICU, said in a statement.
But the station also pointed out that those were the names signed off on (if not read aloud) by the National Transportation Safety Board before today's noon broadcast.
Sure enough, the NTSB copped to the bizarre screwup, blaming an intern for getting it wrong.
"The National Transportation Safety Board apologizes for inaccurate and offensive names that were mistakenly confirmed as those of the pilots of Asiana flight 214, which crashed at San Francisco International Airport on July 6," the NTSB said in a statement Friday.
"Earlier today, in response to an inquiry from a media outlet, a summer intern acted outside the scope of his authority when he erroneously confirmed the names of the flight crew on the aircraft. The NTSB does not release or confirm the names of crew members or people involved in transportation accidents to the media. We work hard to ensure that only appropriate factual information regarding an investigation is released and deeply regret today's incident.
"Appropriate actions will be taken to ensure that such a serious error is not repeated."

This is an awful gaffe, with racist overtones. Doubtless whoever prepared the graphic was thinking that they had come up with  a wonderful practical joke. Humour may be in the eye of the beholder, but making jokes about fatal accidents is never funny.