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Travis Barker & DJ AM Survive Plane Crash

September 20, 2008 by towerblog

Scary news to report. It’s hitting all major news reports now that DJ AM and Travis Barker, former drummer of Blink-182, were involved in a plane crash late last night in Columbia, South Carolina. DJ AM and Barker are at a hospital in Georgia in critical condition. Sadly 4 others aboard the plane were killed. 2 worked with Barker: Chris Baker, 29, was an assistant and Charles Still, 25, worked as Barker’s body guard. The other two were pilot Sarah Lemmon, 31 and co-pilot James Bland, 51.

The duo, known as TVSDJ-AM were performing last night, and were about to fly back to Los Angeles when their plane crashed shortly after take-off. It was rumored that also aboard were Perry Farrell and Gavin DeGraw; however, it has been confirmed that they were not on the flight.

This news comes at a weird time: I’m currently writing this blog from a stuffy train because I chose to take the train to Montreal instead of a plane. My birthday is tomorrow, and I’m superstitious about flying near my birthday. It’s bizarre to be reading about this whole tragedy while on a train.