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Posted on 09/20/2008 6:29:54 AM PDT by John W
Former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker has been left critically injured after a Learjet crashed while departing from a South Carolina airport.
4 people were killed, while two people - including Barker and DJ AM, a famed Hollywood DJ - were injured.
Barker was transported to a burn center in Augusta, Georgia, where he was listed in critical condition.
Barker had performed Friday night at an event alongside Perry Farrell, the former Jane's Addiction singer, as well as Gavin DeGraw and DJ AM. It was not immediately clear whether any of those performers, aside DJ AM were traveling with Barker.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said the plane carrying six people was departing shortly before midnight Friday from Columbia when air traffic controllers reporting seeing sparks. She said the plane went off the runway and crashed on a nearby road.
Bergen said the Lear 60 was headed to Van Nuys, California. She was unable to confirm the names of who was on board the plane.
Developing...
New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA 5/5/08 - Taz Arnold (AKA TI$A), once front man to underground
hip-hop super group Sa-Ra formerly signed to Grammy award winning artist Kanye West’s label
Good Music, launches his solo career and dedicates his first single and accompanying celebrity
filled music video, “Vote Obama” in support of democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack
Obama. Kanye West, Jay Z, Chris Brown, Travis Barker, Shepard Fairey, and Apple of The
Black Eyed Peas are among some of the celebrities, artists, and tastemakers that make a cameo.
The “Vote Obama” track was produced by Alfred Darlington AKA DAEDELUS who has released
music on numerous labels Internationally, in addition to collaborating and performing with artists
such as N.E.R.D., Billy Preston, The Silver Apples, Sa-Ra, MF DOOM, Madlib, Busdriver, Justice,
2 Live Crew, Billy Higgins, Prefuse 73, and many more. He is currently signed to UK label Ninja Tune,
his next release “Love To Make Music To” is due May 22nd, 2008.
It is a shame that foul-mouthed punk rapsters can become celebrities. It is also a double shame that these punks are stirring up the 'hood' to vote for Obama. Have you heard of the Wild Ones?
Good luck to him. If he makes it, he’s going to have some new skin to tattoo.
Travis Barker is most known for his crazy looks and the reality show he had with his former wife Playboy centerfold Shana Moakler.
Right now he is best know for hanging out with punk hip-hoppers and making foul mouth videos titled Vote Obama.
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Actually, right now he’s best known for being critically injured in a plane crash.
I’m surprised anyone survived looking at the plane. I have liked a couple of Blink-182 songs, but even if I didn’t, it’s sad for the families of those killed, and it’s sad for anyone to be in the shape these two guys are in.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-learcrash21-2008sep21,0,6208695.story
LA Times article posted around 10:15 a.m. pdt
has a larger & clearer photo of the crash site
I can’t imagine he’ll make it. The witness said Barker and Adam were on fire in the middle of the freeway and trying to bat out the flames.
Umm, I never said he was a hero. I said he was a good business man who worked very hard. And, you may dislike him and his music, but he is. He has made a great deal of money off his many businesses (I like how one building is picked and pawned off as if it’s all he owns).
I don’t have to like the guy to give him credit for being good at business. Not a huge fan of a lot of businessmen but I recognize their skill.
Damn the slanted L.A. Slimes anyway. I wouldn’t link them for $5. Here’s their idea of “news” headlines
“Todd and Sarah Palin unchallenged in Fox interviews”
“Sarah Palin said yes, thanks, to a road to nowhere in Alaska”
I really only linked it for the photo.
At 10:40, Setree confirmed that Barker's assistant, Chris "Little Chris" Baker, also died in the crash. He was 29, and lived in Studio City, California. At 11:30 a.m., Setree released the name of the fourth person who died: Barker's security guard, Charles Still, 25, of Los Angeles..."
Paris Hilton got her @ss kicked in a bar over Travis Barker by his estranged (Playboy centerfold) wife.
Just keep on trollin’.
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