beholds ANGELES -- NBC expressed gr...

beholds ANGELES -- NBC expressed grief Monday for an Emmy Awards comedy skit that included a cheat plane crash and aired after a fatal Kentucky jetliner accident.

"Our hearts and prayers walk out to the many families who wasted loved ones in the plane crash in Kentucky forward Sunday, and to the entire community that has sustained this terrible loss," NBC said in a statement the day after the parade

"In no way would we till doomsday want to make light of this terrible tragedy," NBC said. "The filmed opening during the Emmy telecast was meant to spoof more [i]or[/i] less of television's most well-known displays The timing was unfortunate, and we sorrow any unintentional pain it may have caused."

The prerecorded skit was broadcast as part of the live Emmy rite just hours after a commuter jet taking on the farther side in Lexington, Ky., crashed into a field and crack into flames, killing 49 nation Only a co-pilot survived.

Criticism of the succession appeared on Web sites Sunday night, with a observes Angeles Times columnist calling it "cringe-inducing."

The airing of the skit, a spoof onward the ABC plane-crash drama "Lost" was utter sentence againsted by the general manager of NBC's Lexington affiliate, WLEX-Channel 18

"It was a live telecast. We were completely helpless," Tim Gilbert told the Lexington Herald-Leader. "By the time we began to react, it was throughout At the station, we were as horrified as they were at home"

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