Is this really interesting: Blink 182 Plane Crash
Barker and Goldstein had played at a huge free outdoor concert in Columbia’s Five Points district on Saturday night, CNN affiliate WIS-TV said.
COLUMBIA, South Carolina A hospital spokeswoman says former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and a popular disc jockey have been critically injured in a Learjet crash in South Carolina that killed four people.
DJ AM, left, and Travis Barker backstage at the MTV Video Music Awards on September 7.
Lexington County Coroner Harry O. Harman said all the dead in Friday’s crash were Californians.
William Owens told WIS-TV he was driving down Highway 302 when he said he saw a fireball go across the road.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen says the plane carrying six people was departing shortly before midnight Friday when air traffic controllers reporting seeing sparks.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said the twin-engine private jet was cleared for takeoff on a flight to Van Nuys, California, and began its takeoff roll a few minutes before midnight.
Air traffic controllers “saw sparks coming from the runway whether that was from the aircraft or its engines, we don’t know,” Bergen said Saturday.
The crash closed the airport, which is Columibia’s main commercial and passenger terminal, and it remained closed late Saturday afternoon.
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The National Transportation Safety Board has sent team to West Columbia, South Carolina, to investigate the crash.
He said he asked them whether anyone else was on board the plane, and they said four people were with them.
Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and disc jockey Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein were in critical condition with extensive burns Saturday after a jet crash that killed four people, authorities said.
Beth Frits, spokeswoman at the Joseph Still Burn Center, in Augusta, Georgia, said Barker and Goldstein arrived at the hospital early Saturday.
“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.
NTSB spokeswoman Debbie Hersman said the airport would not reopen until investigators finished collecting debris from the runway and crash site.
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He identified them as pilot Sarah Lemmon, 31, of Anaheim Hills; co-pilot James Bland, 52, of Carlsbad; Chris Baker, 29, of Studio City; and Charles Still, 25, of Los Angeles.
The Associated Press reported that Baker was an assistant to Barker and Still was a security guard for the musician.
In addition to playing with Blink-182, Barker appeared in the MTV reality show “Meet the Barkers,” along with his wife at the time, former Miss USA Shanna Moakler, according to MTV’s Web site.
