NBC News anchor Brian Williams who has come under fire for his concocted version of the Iraq story has apologized.
On Wednesday, Feb. 4, Williams accepted that the story he had narrated on being under fire during his coverage of the Iraq invasion in 2003 was untrue.
During the coverage of a tribute story on Tim Terpak - an army officer befriended by Williams when the former was assigned the protection of the NBC crew - Williams claimed at the New York Rangers hockey game that he was aboard the U.S. Air Force helicopter which was struck by rockers and grounded during the Iraq invasion.
However, under the video of the tribute on NBC Nightly News' official Facebook page, Flight Engineer Lance Reynolds (a crew member on the Chinook) commented that he did not recollect Williams being on the aircraft.
Williams apologized to Reynolds for the error and admitted that he was "indeed on the Chinook behind the bird that took the RPG in the tail housing just above the ramp." Reynolds also said that he did not wish to fictionalize the incident and attributed the misrepresentation to "fog of memory over 12 years."
