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Posted: 2015-02-05T00:04:01Z | Updated: 2015-02-05T16:59:01Z

NEW YORK -- "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams said Wednesday that he had not been aboard a helicopter that was struck and forced down in Iraq in 2003, as he has previously claimed.

Williams recanted his original story to Star and Stripes , telling the military paper that he doesn't know "what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another.

As Stars and Stripes noted, NBC has repeated Williams' initial account of the incident for years. Most recently, in a Friday "Nightly News" segment featuring Command Sgt. Major Tim Terpack, Williams described being aboard a helicopter that was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade and forced down at the beginning of the Iraq War. Williams said that his NBC team was then "rescued, surrounded and kept alive" by a platoon led by Terpack. The newscast showed footage of Williams accompanying Terpack to a New York Rangers hockey game, where the arena announcer repeated Williams' account of events.

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