article_snippet.sent: NBC handed Williams a six-month suspension in February after Williams acknowledged Williams had lied about being on board a helicopter that came under fire while reporting from Iraq in 2003.
article_snippet.sent: Exaggerations: During a report in February, pictured, Williams recounted a tale of how Williams had been on a Chinook that came under fire while in Iraq in 2003 - but Williams had actually been in a separate aircraft .
article_snippet.sent: When it came to uncovering the truth behind what actually happened in the 2003 helicopter incident, NBC quickly learned Williams would be of no help. '
article_snippet.sent: In February, Williams was forced to admit that Williams wasn't aboard the helicopter that was hit and forced down by enemy fire in Iraq in 2003  - a story Williams had often repeated over the past 12 years. '
article_snippet.sent: Lies: During a report in 2003, Williams reported how a Chinook, pictured, had been grounded but Williams later claimed Williams had been aboard the aircraft that was shot down.
article_snippet.sent: It came after Williams claimed on the Nightly News in January that the aircraft that was shot down had been hit, causing outrage from the soldiers who had actually been involved.
article_snippet.sent: Crew members on the 159th Aviation Regiment's Chinook that was hit by two rockets and small arms fire had told Stars and Stripes that the NBC anchor was nowhere near the aircraft or two other Chinooks that had been flying in formation when Crew members on the 159th Aviation Regiment's Chinook that was hit by two rockets and small arms fire took fire.
article_snippet.sent: According to Crew members on the 159th Aviation Regiment's Chinook that was hit by two rockets and small arms fire, Williams arrived about an hour later on another helicopter after the other three had made an emergency landing.
article_snippet.sent: Over the years, Williams has told multiple versions of a story about being in an the 159th Aviation Regiment's Chinook helicopter during the Iraq War in 2003.
article_snippet.sent: Earlier this year, Williams claimed an Army Chinook helicopter was hit by ground fire, an allegation Williams was later forced to admit was false after an outcry from soldiers who were present.
article_snippet.sent: Williams was later suspended over the 2003 helicopter incident.
article_snippet.sent: In a 2007 interview with Fairfield University Student Television, Williams recalled 'Katyusha rockets passing just underneath an Army Chinook helicopterIsrael.
article_snippet.sent: In fact Williams was nowhere near enemy fire and in a broadcast segment filmed the next day Williams described rocket fire 'six miles away'.
highlights_snippet.sent: Williams was suspended  from NBC in February after it emerged Williams'd lied about being in a helicopter that was shot down in Iraq in 2003 .
  