2 Musicians Injured in Crash That Kills 4

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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 20, 2008

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A Learjet crashed on takeoff at Columbia Metropolitan Airport, killing four people and leaving Travis Barker, the former drummer for the band Blink-182, and a popular disc jockey critically injured, the authorities said Saturday.

A spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, Kathleen Bergen, said the plane, carrying six people, was departing just before midnight Friday from Columbia Metropolitan Airport when air traffic controllers saw sparks coming from the plane. The plane hurtled off the end of a runway and crashed through antennas and a fence. It came to rest on an embankment of a five-lane highway and was engulfed in flames, said Debbie Hersman, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board.

Two passengers, Chris Baker, 29, of Studio City, Calif., and Charles Still, 25, of Los Angeles, died, as did the pilot, Sarah Lemmon, 31, of Anaheim Hills, Calif., and the co-pilot, James Bland, 52, of Carlsbad, Calif., the Lexington County coroner said.

Beth Frits, a spokeswoman for the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta, Ga., said Mr. Barker and the disc jockey, Adam Goldstein, known as DJ AM, were at the center.

Mr. Barker and Mr. Goldstein, who perform together under the name TRVSDJ-AM, played a free concert in Columbia’s college neighborhood Friday night.

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I read today that they are both going to fully recover . They are both very lucky to be alive .

Travis was burned on his torso and lower body , and adam was burned on his hands and part of his head .

Last month i made an instrumental out of Blink182's song I Miss You . I was going to try to make it a full instrumental , but ended up making it sound like the way i wanted to .

If anyone would like to listen to it , i can pm it to you . I'm not sure if it is ok to post a link of my music here . It's my own hosting .

I made it with MixMeister Fusion