We study the validity of the Blackadar-Kirchberg conjecture for extensions of separable, nuclear, quasidiagonal C*-algebras that satisfy the UCT. More specifically, we show that the conjecture for the extension has an affirmative answer if the ideal lies in a class of C*-algebras that is closed under local approximations and contains all separable ASH-algebras, as well as certain classes of simple, unital C* -algebras and crossed products of unital C*-algebras with Z.