KTVU is possibly being sued now...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate..._tu_lo_ho.html
"Lee said that the airline decided not to sue the NTSB because, in the words of the AP, "it was the TV station report, not the U.S. federal agency that damaged the airline's reputation." She didn't elaborate any further."
IMO, the reputation was tarnished when the experienced pilot acted on the decision to let the newer pilot land.
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...awsuit-threat/
Asiana Airlines’ idiotic lawsuit threat
By Erik Wemple, Published: July 15 at 2:25 pm
"CNN is reporting this statement from the airline:
“After a legal review, the company decided to file a lawsuit against the network because it was their report that resulted in damaging the company’s image,” said a company spokesperson.
There’s little question that the KTVU report disparaged Asians and conveyed false information. That’s unfortunate. It doesn’t, however, give Asiana Airlines a cause of action against KTVU.
To win a judgment against the television station, the airline must prove that the false report so injured its reputation that it resulted in the loss of business. That, it will never be able to do.
If Asiana Airlines suffers a loss of business these days, what will have been the cause? We’ll throw out two options:
1) A crash after an Asiana aircraft approached San Francisco International Airport too slowly, leaving three people dead.
2) A roughly 30-second report on a local TV station using fake pilot names for the flight.
Tough call there.
Consider, too, that the KTVU report in question made no allegations about how the airline operated; it merely read off four names — wrong names, to be sure, but names! What’s defamatory about names? The racial insensitivity in the broadcast, too, is fully protected under U.S. law, notes attorney Jeffrey Pyle, a partner in the Boston-based firm Prince Lobel Tye LLP. “There’s no legal claim that you have against somebody for being unintentionally racist or intentionally racist,” says Pyle."