29yeartoker

I stumbled across this and thought you all might find it interesting. Maybe not so much interesting but sad I hope the survivors come out okay.


4 killed in SC plane crash; drummer, DJ injured

09/20/2008 11:56 AM, AP
Page Ivey

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ AM were critically injured in a fiery Learjet crash in South Carolina that killed four people, authorities said Saturday.

Officials said the plane carrying six people was departing shortly before midnight Friday when air traffic controllers reporting seeing sparks. The plane hurtled off the end of a runway and crashed through antennas and a fence. It came to rest on an embankment across a five-lane highway and was engulfed in flames, said Debbie Hersman, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board.

Barker and DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, were in critical condition at a burn center in Augusta, Ga., about 75 miles southwest of Columbia, hospital spokeswoman Beth Frits said.

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, according to the county coroner.

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, Hersman said. The company said it had no immediate comment.

At the crash site Saturday, the air was still heavy with the odor of jet fuel. A trail of black soot led off a runway. The nose of the aircraft was gone and the roof was missing from two-thirds of the charred plane.

Barker and Goldstein had performed together under the name TRVSDJ-AM at a free concert in Columbia on Friday night.

"It's absolutely terrible and tragic," Columbia Mayor Bob Coble said.

The show, which included performances by former Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell and singer Gavin DeGraw, drew 10,000 people into the streets of Five Points, the neighborhood near the University of South Carolina, Coble said.

One concertgoer said TRVSDJ-AM's performance was unique and different.

"It was literally one of the best shows I've ever seen," said Brett Flashnick, a freelance photographer who works for The Associated Press and attended the concert for a local newspaper.

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," which sold more than five 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 former Miss USA Shanna Moakler, to whom he was married at the time. The show documented the former couple's lavish wedding and life. Their later split, reconciliation and subsequent break up made them tabloid favorites.

Goldstein is a popular DJ for hire who at one time was engaged to Nicole Richie.

He spun a mix of hip-hop and dance beats for the hottest nightclubs and had a string of dates set up for the next few weeks. He reached the peak of his celebrity perhaps during his highly publicized romance with Richie a few years ago.

DJ AM also dated singer/actress Mandy Moore, and while he became a gossip favorite for his romances, he drew 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.

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Associated Press writers Page Ivey in Columbia and Nekesa Mumbi Moody in New York contributed to this report.

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king cola

Damn that's crazy, sad that it happend. Yeah hopefully the survivors will be alright. Wonder what caused the problem? One of those small planes crashed and killed that r&b singer Alliyah a few years ago over in the Bahamas shortly after taking off.

BuCk3t-h3aD

damn... why do so many great musicians go down in plane crashes?
Skynard-plane crash
S.R.V.-plane crash
Randy Rhoads-plane crash

I just dont understand it. It's kinda sad... i mean whos next?

29yeartoker

Yep they do for some odd reason. Don't forget the old timers

Buddy Holly
Ritchie Valens
Patsy Cline
Otis Redding
Ronnie Van Zant
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jim Croce
Big Bopper

They all had excellent talent!

Audio

Maybe entertainment industry conspiracy to sell more music and merch? Who here knew about TRVSDJ-AM before the plane crash? I think they killed johnny cash and ray charles too to make lots of money from the movies. Same thing with heath ledger, though not music related. Just a theory of course...

king cola

There was also a whole college sports team that got killed in a plane crash years ago. They made a movie about it but I forgot the name.