Travis Barker Reveals He Might Fly Again 13 Years After Surviving Deadly Plane Crash
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Travis Barker might be ready to fly again.
In case you didn’t know, the 45-year-old rocker nearly died in a plane crash that tragically killed four of the six passengers on board 13 years ago. Travis and late friend
Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein, who passed away a year later from a drug overdose, were the only ones to survive in 2008. Following the crash, the
Blink-182 drummer suffered from third-degree burns on 65 percent of his body and was hospitalized for three months.
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The world-famous drummer and producer, who got his start with Blink-182 back in the early aughts, is now the sole survivor of a fatal plane crash that occurred on a runway in South Carolina in September 2008. He’s spoken about the crash before, as well as its devastating effects, and he’s doing it again, this time in an interview with Men’s Health, in which he mostly focuses on his new wellness brand, Barker Wellness Co.
Of the six people on board the 2-year-old Learjet 60 private plane, only Barker and his good friend and collaborator DJ AM Adam Goldstein survived. They both suffered second and third-degree burns, and it was Goldstein who saved Barker’s life by using his own shirt to put out the fire. The plane’s landing gear blew off (the tires were under-inflated and were punctured during takeoff, the NTSB investigation ruled), and the pilot tried to abort taking-off at too high a speed (144 knots), which ma