AMERICAN TV news networks have made a series of embarrassing stuff-ups in their coverage of the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

It was a double whammy for Texas’ KXAN news, who not only misspelt the word ‘search’ in their infograph, but mistakenly placed Perth in Tasmania.

While there is a Perth located in the north-east end of the Apple Isle, it’s a fair way away from the capital city in Western Australia.

The two are close to 4000km apart, or a two-day, 10 hour drive.

Proof read and fact check please, @KXAN_News. The Perth you mean is not there and 'seach' is not a word. pic.twitter.com/ZAmln3nupo — Chris Ledden (@ChrisLedden) March 21, 2014

Meanwhile, over at Fox News, a graphic placed an unusual emphasis on Port Hedland and the Pacific Ocean became the Coral Sea.

The boffins at CNN last night placed Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, in Indonesia.

It didn’t stop there. This morning a reader sent us this egregious error posted on CNN’s website yesterday.

News.com.au has kept a keen eye on American TV news coverage of Australian geography recently.

CNN accidentally said Auckland was an Australian city during its 2014 New Year’s Eve coverage.

And during the NSW bushfire crisis last year NBC published this map showing the entire nation engulfed in an apocalyptic inferno.

They sure aren’t ‘on fire’ with their general knowledge.