The video looked like it could be a spoof when I first saw it too, but I looked it up first and provided a csmonitor.com link in my post to verify it was real. That link also mentioned a possible lawsuit by the airline against the TV station.
There certainly was a spoof, though, somewhere. It's just a matter of who did it and how someone fell for it.
Just to get on the air, I'd think those names would of had to at least pass by a researcher, writer, graphics person, editor, and not to mention the reporter. And then it got verified by a NTSB person who turns out to be a summer intern (blame it on Obama or the sequestration, depending on your political view) .
And to further show the video was real, here it is again with the station's apology...
