An intern was blamed for incorrect — and racist — names airing on a Oakland local television on Friday.

On Friday afternoon, Oakland, Calif. Fox affiliate KTVU broadcast what it thought was a list of the flight crew for Asiana flight 214, which crashed while landing at San Francisco's airport Sunday afternoon, killing two passengers immediately and putting 10 others in critical condition. A third passenger has since died from injuries.

What was so strange about KTVU's broadcast was the names attributed to the flight crew. Each was a phonetically spelled-out phrase meant to look like a name. You can hear the anchor read each on the video above.

KTVU aired the names on its Friday noon broadcast, then apologized on-air and on its website. As a part of its apology, the station said the names were confirmed by the National Transportation Safety Board.

Earlier in the newscast we gave some names of pilots involved in the Asiana Airlines crash. These names were not accurate despite an NTSB official in Washington confirming them late this morning. We apologize for the error.

After being blamed for the incident, the NTSB released its own statement, saying the so-called "official" was a summer intern.

Said the NTSB in a statement: "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." It added that the agency never confirms the names of crew members on planes involved in an incident.

The NTSB also told CNN that the intern in question didn't create the names — he only confirmed them. Station KTVU still hasn't said where the obviously fake names originated.

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