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holy cow! DJ AM and Travis Barker almost died this morning in a plane crash
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/l...0,6208695.story
The plane was taking off in South Carolina with six people aboard. Four were killed. The musicians are in critical condition.
By Geoff Boucher and Jennifer Oldham, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
10:10 AM PDT, September 20, 2008
Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and Adam Goldstein, known as celebrity DJ AM, were critically injured in a fiery Learjet crash in South Carolina that killed four people, authorities said today.
The Learjet was taking off shortly before midnight Friday with six people aboard, including two crew members, when air traffic controllers saw sparks. The plane, which was en route to Van Nuys airport, veered off the end of the runway, rolled through a fence and crashed on a nearby road, said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen.
* DJ AM
Photos: DJ AM
* Travis Barker
Photos: Travis Barker
Barker and Goldstein were in critical condition at a burn center in Augusta, Ga., about 75 miles southwest of Columbia, hospital spokeswoman Beth Frits said.
The Lexington County coroner said today that pilot Sarah Lemmon of Anaheim Hills and copilot James Bland of Carlsbad died. Also killed were passengers Chris Baker, 29, of Studio City, and Charles Still, 25, of Los Angeles.
At the crash site today, the air was still heavy with the odor of jet fuel. A trail of black soot led off a runway, across a five-lane road next to the airport and up an embankment. The nose of the aircraft was gone and the roof was missing from two-thirds of the charred plane.
An investigative team from the National Transportation Safety Board has been dispatched to South Carolina.
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 Ferrell and singer Gavin DeGraw, drew 10,000 people into the streets of Five Points, the neighborhood near the University of South Carolina, Coble said.
Neither Ferrell nor DeGraw was on the plane, their representatives told AP on Saturday.
Barker is one of the more famous faces to rise up in the Southern California pop-punk scene and, unlike many drummers who are fairly anonymous figures at the rear of the stage, he parlayed his popularity into television roles, advertising appearances and varied business ventures.
The 33-year-old Fontana native came to fame as the drummer in the platinum-selling San Diego County band Blink-182, one of the top U.S. bands at the beginning of this decade.
After Blink broke-up, Barker went on to play with other rock bands such as +44, the Transplants and Box Car Racer, but he also established himself a musical chameleon, working with hip-hop acts such as Busta Rhymes, the Game, the Black Eyed Peas and the Oscar-winning group Three Six Mafia.
Barker and then-wife Shanna Moakler, a former Miss USA, were in front of the cameras along with their three children for "Meet the Barkers," the MTV domestic-life reality show that aired in 2005 and part of 2006. The rock star also appeared in the 1999 hit film "American Pie, and his television appearances include " CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," " The Simpsons," "MAD TV" and "MTV Cribs."
The tattoo-covered Barker, who often pops up in the gossip pages for his liaisons with celebrities, among them Paris Hilton, was also the subject of a popular 2006 Boost Mobile television commercial that has been viewed more than 800,000 times on YouTube.
Barker performed at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards with Goldstein, who goes by the stage moniker DJ AM. Goldstein was formerly in the band "Crazy Town" but today may be best known for his romances -- he was engaged for a time to "The Simple Life" star Nicole Richie and also had relationships with singer Mandy Moore and Canadian model Jessica Stam.
He is also the owner of popular Hollywood nightclub LAX, which has been a major spot in the celebrity circuit since its opening in 2005.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. |
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| Lomeli |
| gnarly. hope they make a full recovery. |
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| Clovis |
Crazy. Hope they get through.
I didn't know Barker owned LAX |
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| drEamer |
| quote: | Originally posted by Clovis
Crazy. Hope they get through.
I didn't know Barker owned LAX |
AM owns LAX i think it said |
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| DJ Reese |
4 killed in SC plane crash; drummer, DJ injured
09/20/2008 2:09 PM, AP
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WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Hours after performing for thousands of South Carolina college students, former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ AM were critically injured in a fiery Learjet crash 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. Baker was an assistant to Barker and Still was a security guard for the musician.
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.
"It's absolutely terrible and tragic," Columbia Mayor Bob Coble said.
Barker and Goldstein had performed together under the name TRVSDJ-AM at a free concert in Columbia on Friday night. Event sponsor T-Mobile said their hourlong set ended at about 7:15 p.m.
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.
Peter Kastis, Farrell's manager, said he and Farrell didn't find out about the crash until they arrived at the airport Saturday morning to find it closed.
"I just hugged them hello less than 24 hours ago. I wish I could hug them now," Kastis 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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| satellitesf |
| THE DAY THE ALMOST MUSIC ALMOST DIED |
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| Ted Promo |
| almost success! |
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| Nerologic |
A member on a Honda site i go to posted this last night right around 12am, he "heard" that they had past away.
| quote: | Small update,
Travis and AM where sitting in the back of the plane and somehow managed to get out before the planes fire got out of control. As the plane was leaving the tower say sparks and originally thought it exploded in air. So thats when they went to see what happened but no official word on what went wrong. They were pronounced dead because they were unresponsive. |
Also, RIP Charles "Che" Stills. He was Barkers bodyguard. And RIP Chris Barker (Travis's assistant) he had just gotten married and just had a baby.
Che was into the Honda community and was in the middle of re-building his hatch...
Che is on the left.
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| mr.kind |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ted Promo
almost success! |
| quote: | Originally posted by satellitesf
THE DAY THE ALMOST MUSIC ALMOST DIED |
wtf ?
show a little class. |
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| junkproject |
| quote: | Originally posted by mr.kind
wtf ?
show a little class. |
Class on TA, never heard of it. |
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