Travis barker and DJ AM involved in fatal plane crash

[acealive1]

UPDATE: Perry Farrell's manager confirmed to MTV News that Perry was not on the plane.

UPDATE II: Gavin DeGraw's publicist confirmed to People that Gavin was not on the plane. MSNBC reports that the female pilot, Sarah Lemmon, and the male co-pilot, James Bland, died in the crash.

UPDATE III: - MSNBC confirmed that 29-year-old Chris Baker of Studio City, CA was one of the passengers who died in the crash. Chris, who is known as "Little Chris," was Travis' assistant. One male passenger still hasn't been identified.

UPDATE IV: A witness who was driving down the highway saw two men, presumably Travis and DJ AM, taking off their clothes and trying to extinguish themselves. The two men told the witness that four other people were on the plane.

UPDATE V: 25-year-old Charles Still of Riverside, CA has been identified as the fourth victim of the crash. Charles was Travis' bodyguard.

UPDATE VI: TMZ reports that DJ AM's face has been severely burned and is being treated right now. Travis is expected to survive, but was burned from the waist down. Chris Baker, Travis' assistant who died in the crash, was a newlywed and his wife recently had a baby.

UPDATE VII: The National Transportation Safety Board held a press conference and gave a few more details about the crash. They said the jet overran the runway, hit a few lights and an antenna, crashed through a fence and careened across the highway next to the airport. The jet crashed into an embankment where it caught on fire.

[Bub666]

I just heard about this,how sad.

[mista_mo]

so Travis Barker didn't die?

Damnit.

[SymphonicX]

This is the guy from Blink182?

If he dies....rock infamy...

if he lives....another deformed drummer...

we can't win!

Sorry, I know it's dark, I am joshing...I wish them all well.

[capncnut]

Perry Farrell's manager confirmed to MTV News that Perry was not on the plane.
At least someone with actual talent wasn't injured. :rolleyes:

[Mike70]

travis who???

dj who?????


never heard of either one of these guys.

wait - just read the entire thread, blink-182. that's why i had no idea who travis barker is. i still haven't the faintest clue about who this other dude is.

[AcesandEights]

Jesus, plane accidents freak me out. Bad news for all those victims and families touched by this tragedy :(

[Tricky]

i still haven't the faintest clue about who this other dude is.

apparently he was in that crazy town group from 2001 or whenever it was

[acealive1]

UPDATE







AUGUSTA, Ga. - Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity disc jockey DJ AM are expected to fully recover from burns they suffered in a fiery South Carolina jet crash that killed the other four people aboard, one of their doctors said Sunday.
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Dr. Fred Mullins, medical director of the Joseph M. Still Burn Center, said the two suffered second- and third-degree burns but had no other injuries from the crash that one witness described as a fireball shooting across a highway.

"Anybody who can survive a plane crash is pretty lucky," Mullins told reporters during a news conference Sunday morning.

Barker was burned on his torso and lower body and DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, was burned on an arm and a portion of his scalp, according to a statement from the musicians' families released by the hospital. Mullins declined to discuss specific recovery times for the men, but said such injuries can take a year to fully heal.

Both men are still in critical but stable condition, he said.

The Learjet crashed late Friday night shortly after taking off from an airport in Columbia, where the men had just performed a concert for thousands of college students. The plane's two-person crew and a pair of the musicians' staff members — also their close friends — were killed.

As the plane was departing, air traffic controllers reported seeing sparks, officials said. The plane hurtled off the end of a runway and came to rest a quarter-mile away on an embankment across a five-lane highway, engulfed in flames.

One witness said he was driving when a fireball streaked across the highway about 600 feet ahead of him. William Owens said he approached to see the two survivors frantically trying to remove their burning clothes.

"I noticed two guys who were on fire and it looked like a dance: They didn't know what to do," said Owens, a 60-year-old delivery van driver.

Goldstein had stripped off his own shirt and was helping Barker strip naked, said Owens, who was able to identify the men Saturday night because of news reports that showed Barker's extensive tattoos.

Owens said Goldstein told him four other people were on board the jet, but the flames were too intense to get close.

"'Oh my God' was all they were saying," Owens said of Barker and Goldstein. "They stood there and it's like — didn't know what to do. None of us did."

Several fans visited the hospital over the weekend. One carried a sign that read: "Get Well Travis."

"I was just shocked when I first heard it and I knew that I had to do something," said Ryan Meadows, a 19-year-old college student from Augusta.

Two other passengers — Chris Baker, 29, of Studio City, Calif., and Charles Still, 25, of Los Angeles — died, as did pilot Sarah Lemmon, 31, of Anaheim Hills, Calif., and co-pilot James Bland, 52, of Carlsbad, Calif., according to the county coroner. Baker was an assistant to Barker and Still was a security guard for the musician.

"The families wish to thank fans from all over the world for their prayers and concern. Deepest sympathy is expressed to the loved ones of those who perished in the crash," said the statement from the musicians' families.

The plane was headed for Van Nuys, Calif. It is owned by Global Exec Aviation, a California-based charter company, and was certified to operate last year, said National Transportation Safety Board member Debbie Hersman.

A longtime friend of the co-pilot said Bland flew anti-smuggling missions 20 years for the U.S. Customs Service and flew missions for the Santa Ana Police Department in California and U.S. Border Patrol.

"He was such an experienced pilot, it had to be something beyond their control," said Tim Ferrill, a Huntington Beach, Calif., pilot. "He was an absolutely meticulous pilot, very thorough and not a risk-taker at all."

Barker and Goldstein had performed together under the name TRVSDJ-AM at a free concert in Columbia on Friday night. The show, which included performances by former Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell and singer Gavin DeGraw, drew about 10,000 people to a neighborhood near the University of South Carolina.

Barker, 32, was one of the more colorful members of the multiplatinum-selling punk rock band Blink-182, whose biggest album was 1999's CD "Enema of the State" and sold more than 5 million copies in the United States alone.

After Blink-182 disbanded in 2005, Barker went on to form the rock band (+44) — pronounced "plus forty-four." He also starred in the MTV reality series "Meet the Barkers" with his then-wife, former Miss USA Shanna Moakler. The show documented the former couple's lavish wedding and home life. Their later split, reconciliation and subsequent breakup made them tabloid favorites.

Goldstein, 35, is a popular DJ for hire who at one time was engaged to Nicole Richie and dated singer/actress Mandy Moore. While he became a gossip favorite for his romances, he draws respect from music aficionados for his DJ skills.

Barker and Goldstein performed as part of the house band at the MTV Video Music Awards earlier this month.

[Yojimbo]

Not a Blink 182 fan, and Travis always kind of annoyed me from those cell phone commercials. Still, very sad and I wish them well.

On a side note: I lost my father to a Cessna crash in 1976, so I have always taken note every time I hear of a small aircraft crash. I don't know about the reality of the statistics, but it seems to me that these things are going down with great frequency. It seems that every couple months I hear about one of these crashes, and it occurs to me that the crashes I hear about (unless they involve a celebrity) are local, so there are probably a lot more happening outside of California that I do not hear about.

EDIT: Wikianswer claims a frequency of 5000 per second.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_frequency_of_plane_crashes

Yeah, right! Just goes to show you that you cannot believe everything you read on the internet. A heavy dose of common sense needs to be administered anytime you access any "wiki" information.

EDIT #2: According to my calculations (likely incorrect since I suck at math) it appears in the years from 2000 to 2008 that worldwide there have been an average of 19 plane crashes per year. An average over the last 58 years works out to 32 per year, but doubtless that number is skewed since I assume air traffic contol and safety monitoring has become more efficient over the years with the devlopment of new tracking technology.

Again, this is info culled from a source on the internet, for which I cannot vouch.
http://www.planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm

[acealive1]

nothing but god letting them out of that plane. idk how anyone could walk away from that wreck

[Mike70]

well, even though i detested blink-182 and have no idea who this other dude is, i hope they both make a full recovery. burns can be a painful bitch to recover from. hopefully neither of them will be permanently scarred.

having read the info ace has posted and looked up some other news on this crash, it sounds like they were both very, very lucky to have survived.

[bassman]

At least someone with actual talent wasn't injured. :rolleyes:

Barker is actually a pretty good drummer. Too bad he wastes it with Blink 182 and their nostril whining...