Get well soon Trav!
Details have now emerged on just exactly how Travis Barker survived the plane crash (Note: the Travis Barker plane crash video in our earlier post below). The story has now come out of how Famous Stars and Straps clothing founder Travis Barker and celebrity disc jockey DJ AM survived the horrific plane crash that killed four people and its nothing sort of amazing….
Barker and his close friend and musical partner DJ AM, real name Adam Goldstein, climbed onto the right wing of a flaming Learjet that was to have delivered them and four others to Los Angeles on Saturday.
“Once they slid down the wing, they had to jump on each other to put each other out,” Lieutenant Josh Shumpert, of the South Congaree Police Department, recalled the men telling him after the commuter jet crashed on the runway in Columbia, South Carolina.”
More of what has emerged so far:
- Shoeless, in shock and in pain, Barker and Goldstein kept asking for an ambulance and worrying about their friends still inside, said Shumpert, one of the first responders on the scene.
- “They were pacing back and forth,” he said. The men did not appear to be burned as badly as he expected.
- The crash killed Barker’s two assistants and the plane’s crew.
- Shumpert said Goldstein, dressed in a T-shirt and shorts or boxers, was hurt worse.
- A dashboard camera from Shumpert’s cruiser captured the turmoil, and the officer gave his first extended interview yesterday.
- REGARDING DJ AM: “I remember seeing the DJ guy with burns on his arms and the back and top of his head,” Schumpert said.
- Doctors at an Augusta burn centre said Barker, 32, and Goldstein, 35, have second and third-degree burns. They are likely to recover fully, doctors have said.
- “Travis was more visibly shaken than the other guy,” said the 25-year-old lieutenant, who since the crash has come to refer to the drummer by his first name.
- This was the testimony of Owens, a 60-year-old in the cargo delivery business, who happened upon the crash BEFORE rescuers:
“I saw a ball of fire cross the highway,” he said. “It was so fast I didn’t know what I’d seen. It looked phantomlike.”
As Owens stopped in his traffic lane, he saw two men flailing their arms, trying to put out their burning clothes.
“They’re going in circles. They’re on fire. They’re freaked out.”
Owens dials 9-1-1.
One of the men, whom Owens learned was Goldstein, put out the flames on himself quickly.
“The other guy is running across the highway to get himself to the grass to roll,” Owens said.
But Barker and Goldstein appear to have realized he did not have time to cross the five-lane road.
“The DJ comes over and must be screaming at him, ‘Get out of the clothes.’
“He’s standing there naked. I see all this tattoos.”
In the chaos of orange flames and black smoke, Owens noticed a stream of jet fuel snaking across the road. It had not yet ignited, though the jet was engulfed.
“All I said to them is, ‘Who’s on board?’ All they said to me is, ‘four people.’ There was no conversation. I heard somebody say, ‘Oh my God!”
For a moment, the three thought about trying to help trapped victims. “Where do you go? What do you do?” Owens said.
“No! Forget it! There is nothing we can do.”
Shumpert sees a greater power at work:
“For them to escape, it was God looking out for them. It wasn’t their time.”
Editors Note: We will be releasing another Travis Barker Myspace Layout here very soon….
Word is he will be taking the long ride home on a bus – we don’t blame you one bit Trav !!!
