'The National Geographic channel has admitted that it made mistakes in a controversial television documentary on the Lockerbie disaster.
'Air Crash Investigation: Lockerbie, which used computers to recreate the impact on the Scottish town, stated in its opening line that two years prior to the bombing, the sabotage of Air India flight 182 had happened off the coast of Scotland.
'However, the channel now has to "rectify" the narration to explain the Air India explosion was off the south coast of Ireland, three-and-a-half years before the bombing over Lockerbie of Pan Am 103 - which caused 270 deaths on December 21, 1988.
'Just days before the 20th anniversary of the tragedy, National Geographic apologised for the mistakes and said they would be rectified.'
[From an article by Lucy Adams in The Herald. It is a pity that National Geographic did not also apologise for its gullibility in peddling an explanation of the disaster that has been seriously challenged (amongst others by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission) and that is likely to be comprehensively discredited in the current appeal by Abdelbaset Megrahi.]
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