Saturday, September 20, 2008

Blink-182's Barker critically injured in plane crash








Former Blink-182 bagman Travis Barker and singer-song artisan Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein were in analytical action with all-encompassing burns Saturday afterwards a jet blast the night afore that dead four people, authorities said.

DJ AM, left, and Travis Barker affectation backstage at the MTV Video Music Awards on September 7.

DJ AM, left, and Travis Barker affectation backstage at the MTV Video Music Awards on September 7.

Two of the four who died backward Friday were cartage and two were aggregation members, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement.

The NTSB has beatific a Go Team to Columbia, South Carolina, to investigate the crash.

The Learjet 60 comatose on ascent at the Columbia Metropolitan Airport at 11:53 p.m. Friday.

Beth Frits, backer at the Joseph Still Bake Center, in Augusta, Georgia, said Barker and Goldstein accustomed at the hospital aboriginal Saturday. She said both men had "extensive burns."

The bake centermost is the better in the country, and the capital one in the Southeast, she said.

Federal Aviation Administration backer Kathleen Bergen said the twin-engine, clandestine jet was austere for ascent on a flight to Van Nuys, California, and began its ascent cycle a few account afore midnight.

Air cartage controllers "saw blaze advancing from the aerodrome -- whether that was from the aircraft or its engines, we don't know," Bergen said Saturday.

The jet larboard the arena but comatose abreast the end of the aerodrome on a alley adjoining to the airport, she said.

There were no added aircraft on the aerodrome and no cars on the road, Bergen said.

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