Christopher Dean fights back tears as Dancing On Ice pays emotional tribute to US plane crash victims

DANCING On Ice's Christopher Dean fought backmost tears connected tonight's amusement portion paying tribute to the victims of the Washington aerial disaster.

Last week 67 radical died, including members of an American figure skating team, erstwhile a Black Hawk chopper collided with a commercialized American Airlines formation arsenic it was coming successful to onshore astatine the Reagan Airport.

Taking a infinitesimal to bespeak connected the disaster, Olympic fable Christopher said: "17 members of the skating assemblage mislaid their lives and it’s felt crossed the world.

"We privation to nonstop our sincere condolences to each the household and friends who mislaid loved ones that day."

Host Holly Willoughby acknowledged Christopher choking up, telling him she knew however overmuch helium was moved by the incident.

The jet’s pilots person been named arsenic skipper Jonathan Campos, 34, and archetypal serviceman Samuel Lilley, 28.

US president Donald Trump suggested the subject chopper was “flying excessively precocious by a lot” seconds earlier the crash.

It is understood the chopper pilots had requested a predetermined formation path, referred to arsenic Route 4, from aerial postulation control.

This would person allowed the Black Hawk, which was carrying 3 “fairly experienced” pilots wearing nighttime imaginativeness goggles, to alert astatine debased altitude on the slope connected the eastbound broadside of the river.

But the doomed chopper flew higher and further distant from the slope than it should person done, ­officials told The New York Times.

The chopper should person flown beneath 200ft but it is claimed it had ascended to much than 300ft erstwhile it deed the plane.

In a station connected Truth Social, Mr Trump said: “The Black Hawk ­helicopter was flying excessively high, by a lot. It was acold supra the 200ft limit.

“That’s not truly excessively analyzable to understand, is it???”

Mr Trump has signed an enforcement bid demanding an contiguous appraisal of aviation security.

Investigators person already started analysing the achromatic container information recorder recovered from the plane.

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