
According to the AP, Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker and DJ Adam Goldstein are among the living after a fatal plane crash killed four people in a Learjet crash in South Carolina. Travis and Adam are said to be in critical condition at a burn center in Augusta, Ga., about 75 miles southwest of Columbia. So so sad! Let’s hope they will be okay!
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said the plane carrying six people was departing shortly before midnight Friday when air traffic controllers reporting seeing sparks. The plane went off a runway and crashed on a nearby road, she said.
Travis and Adam had just finished up playing a free concert in Columbia’s college neighborhood Friday evening.
We’ll update you when we find out more information in regards to Travis and Adam’s conditions. Our thoughts and prayers are with them as well as the families of those who lost their loved ones in this crash.
Update 1:Â 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, one of the deceased was Travis’s assistant Chris Baker.
Update 2:Â More from the eye witness, courtesy of WIS News10:
William Owens was driving down Highway 302 when he said he saw a fireball go across the road.
“I didn’t know what I had seen — it was maybe 800 feet in front of me, but as I approached it closer though I made out a fire. By then I was able to see the tail of the jet and I recognized it as a jet,” Owens said.
Owens then described what he saw as he tried to make it to the wreckage.
“It’s in flames and the fuel is running across the road and I had to cross the fuel to get to the two guys that seemed to have been dumped on the highway,” Owens said.
Owens said the two men were in the road trying to extinguish themselves. He then asked the men if there was anyone else on board the plane and they said four more were with them.
“We turned to the jet to try and see if there was anything we could do, but immediately, there was nothing anyone could do,” Owens said.
Update 3: Sources say that Travis Barker and DJ AM saved their own lives after their plane crashed by jumping out the door of the burning plane, almost immediately after the small jet came to a halt.
Update 4: TMZ reports that Travis Barker has been burned from the waist down, but he is expected to survive the plane crash. DJ AM’s face was severely burned and is being tended to right now.
TMZ also reports that Chris Baker, Travis’ assistant on “Meet the Barkers,” was married recently and has a new baby. How horrible!!!!
Update 5: TMZ reports that Travis Barker and his friends weren’t originally supposed to be on that Learjet last night. Earlier yesterday, Travis’ assistant, Chris Baker, found out his wife was about to go into labor. Travis promised Chris that he would do whatever he could to get him home as quickly as possible. They learned that the fastest way to get from South Carolina to Van Nuys was to travel by private jet.
Travis doesn’t usually fly by private plane, but did it so that Chris could be with his wife.
