September 20, 200818 yr Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and DJ AM, the turntable star once engaged to Nicole Richie, are the only survivors of a late-night Learjet crash in South Carolina that killed the other four onboard. A rep for the Joseph Still Burn Center in Augusta, Ga., tells E! News that Barker, 32, and Goldstein, 35, are in "critical but stable condition. Barker arrived by ground transportation while DJ AM had to be airlifted to the hospital where he is currently in surgery, sources close to the celebrity disc jockey tell E! News. The four victims have been identified by the Lexington County Deputy Coroner. They are pilot Sarah Lemmon, 31, of Anaheim, Calif.; her copilot, James Bland, 52, of Carlsbad, Calif.; Barker's assistant, Chris "Little Chris" Baker, 29, of Studio City, Calif.; and Charles Still, 25, of Los Angeles, Calif. The Lear 60 was headed to Van Nuys, Calif. Barker and AM blend drum beats and dance beats under the name TRVSDJ-AM, and had just finished playing a free T-Mobile concert in Columbia with Gavin DeGraw and former Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell. Both were also part of the house band at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards. Initial investigations at the crash site have concluded, a rep for the National Transportation Safety Board confirms to E! News. ?We?re just leaving the scene of the accident right now,? said Peter Knudson of the NTSB. Of the crash, Knudson told E! News: ?At 11:53 p.m. last night, a Lear 60, which is a twin engine business jet, departed from Columbia Metropolitan Airport on runway 11. It overran the runway and went through a grassy, overrun area. It came in contact then with airport lights, an antenna array, through the airport perimeter fence, crossed a road and came to rest on [an embankment] on the other side of the road.? On impact, the plane caught fire. He could not confirm eye witness reports that both Barker and Goldstein were on fire when escaping the aircraft. ?We are documenting the accident site, talking to witnesses, getting information. We have specialists down here in a human factor and survival factor,? Knudson added. ?This will take about four to seven days, and then we go back to Washington and there?s a lot more work there.? Source
September 20, 200818 yr wow, that sucks, glad they are ok, and RIP to all that died in that plane crash
September 20, 200818 yr Wow!! My heart goes out the families of those that were lost and hope Travis and AM are okay.
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