ESPN reporter Dari Nowkhah apologizes for breaking tragic news to Joe Burrow on live TV

ESPN reporter Dari Nowkhah apologizes for breaking tragic news to Joe Burrow on live TV image

ESPN reporter Dari Nowkhah has issued an apology after breaking tragic news to LSU quarterback Joe Burrow after Saturday's Peach Bowl win over Oklahoma.

Carley McCord, the daughter-in-law of LSU offensive coordinator Steve Ensminger, was one of five people who died in a plane crash in Lafayette, La., on Saturday.

Nowkhah asked Burrow about McCord's death — but Burrow had not known about it — and appeared stunned by the news.

Nowkhah shared an apology on Twitter.

MORE: Carley McCord, daughter-in-law of LSU's Steve Ensminger, dies in plane crash

Hours before Saturday's game Ensminger was informed of McCord's passing but did not tell the team.

The 30-year-old TV journalist and wife of Steve Ensminger Jr. was traveling to Atlanta for the Tigers' game against the Sooners.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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The cause of the crash remains unknown.

From The Associated Press:

"The lack of a distress call and flight data recorder coupled with mangled and charred wreckage will make finding the cause of a fiery airplane crash in Louisiana extremely challenging, federal officials said Sunday. National Transportation Safety Board Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg said at a press conference that it could take 12 to 18 months to figure out why the two-engine Piper Cheyenne fell from the sky about a minute after taking off from the Lafayette Regional Airport on Saturday."