Travis Barker and DJ AM: Plane Crash

On Friday, September 19, 2008 a plane crash had occurred. The passenger’s that were on the plane included former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker , DJ AM, Barker's assistant, Chris "Little Chris" Baker, Barker's security guard, Charles Still, the plane's pilot, Sarah Lemmon, and her co-pilot, James Bland. The four passengers’ on the plane were killed while Barker and DJ AM were in critical condition. Travis Barker and DJ AM had just performed at the free T-Mobile sponsored show in the Five Points area. Bother Barker and AM were transported to a hospital in Columbia following the crash. They were in critical condition at the hospital with extensive amounts of burns. Travis Barker had severe burns from the waist down , while AM only suffered facial burns. Travis Barker and DJ AM very extremely lucky to have survived the plane crash while the four other passengers were killed. In the past decade there were at least 13 plane crashes that included celebrities and they were all killed by plane. Luckily Barker and AM had survived this dreadful plane crash. I believe a lot of celebrities either die or are immensely hurt in plane crashes just by private jet. Private pilots don’t have a lot of training compared to pilots who drive commercial planes containing a lot of passenger’s. I think that pilots who drive private jets should go through the same training as commercial pilots. A lot of these cases containing private jets would decrease because of the training they should be getting. This plane crash took place just before midnight on Friday, September 19, 2008. While the plane was still on the ground, overran the runway, struck by an antenna array and several lights and starting sparking. It then skidded of the runway, through a perimeter fence separating the airfield from a nearby roadway, and then crossed the roadway, coming to a stop on an embankment. The plane then caught on fire through impact. I would have to say that God was surely watching over them because they had survived while the four other passengers on board had died.