{"id":95940,"date":"2025-02-18T18:21:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/aerospace\/the-travis-barker-plane-crash-what-happened\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T18:21:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:21:44","slug":"the-travis-barker-plane-crash-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=95940","title":{"rendered":"The Travis Barker plane crash: What happened?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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On September 19, 2008, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker boarded a Learjet 60 at Columbia Metropolitan Airport (CAE) in South Carolina to fly to Los Angeles. What happened in the next moments would change his life forever.<\/p>\n

Within seconds of starting its takeoff roll, the jet had crashed into an embankment and burst into flames. Barker survived, but with life-changing injuries, and this near-death experience led him to reassess his life and priorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what you need to know about the Travis Barker plane crash, why it happened, and how Barker is doing now.<\/p>\n

How did the Travis Barker plane crash happen?<\/h2>\n

It was just before midnight when the Learjet<\/a> was preparing to take off. Boarding the Learjet along with Barker was his assistant and friend Chris Baker, and his security guard Che Still. Also on board was his best friend DJ AM, also known as Adam Goldstein.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Operating the flight was Global Exec Aviation, a charter company based in Long Beach, California. On the flight deck that day were James Bland and Sarah Lemmon. The aircraft was a two-year-old Learjet 60 with only 108 flight hours on the aircraft.<\/p>\n

As the jet commenced its takeoff roll, Barker recounts hearing two loud bangs that he describes as \u201clike a gunshot\u201d. Air traffic controllers saw sparks coming from the plane. The pilots radioed in to say they were aborting the takeoff but to send out emergency equipment as they were going off the end of the runway.<\/p>\n