Sentence examples for bogus pilot from inspiring English sources
Asiana Airlines will sue a Bay Area TV station over bogus pilot names it broadcast last week.
Asiana spokesman Suh Kiwon told The Times on Monday that the airline was planning a defamation lawsuit against KTVU because the company felt that the station's "mocking" report of the bogus pilot names damaged the Asiana's reputation.
An anchorwoman at KTVU, a Fox affiliate based in Oakland, California, fell victim last week to an apparent prank and reported four bogus pilot names, including "Sum Ting Wong" and "Wi Tu Low," during a newscast.
A San Francisco Bay Area television station and the National Transportation Safety Board apologized Friday after the station reported bogus names for the pilots on board the Asiana Airlines flight that crashed last week based on information from a summer intern at the board.
Last December the European Cockpit Association called on Europe's transport ministers to take action against what it labelled unfair labour practices, including zero-hours contracts and "bogus self-employment" – where pilots are contracted to work via their own limited liability company but prevented from working for other airlines.
But the first suit to be announced a week after the crash, though, wasn't over any of the injured passengers or wrecked equipment; it was over Asiana Airlines's reputation, which the company says was damaged when a Bay Area television aired bogus names of its pilots with racist undertones last week.
In his bags, prosecutors said, immigration agents found a forged pilot's certificate from Embry-Riddle and a bogus Egyptian Airlines uniform.
The RAF has warned anyone thinking of making a bogus 999 call in the hope of catching a glimpse of the pilot prince could find themselves with a bill running into tens of thousands of pound, to cover the cost of the search and rescue operations.
Nor is it a justification for the bogus notions about sovereignty, the militarisation of immigration and customs functions, politicians dressing up as airforce pilots, bunting and flags and all the other manifestations of fear mongering and political insecurity.
