Fatal Jet Crash Injures Blink-182 Drummer Travis Barker (audio - MP3)

Travis Barker, former drummer for the music group Blink-182, Adam
Goldstein, more widely known as DJ AM, and two other passengers
were in a Learjet 60 aircraft that was on a chartered flight from
Columbia, South Carolina to Van Nuys airport in Los Angeles. The
crash, which happened shortly before midnight, occurred during
takeoff. The crew was attempting to abort the takeoff because of
what they thought was a blown tire. The NTSB also reported that
accident investigators reviewing the recording heard sounds
consistent with a tire blowout. The crew was unable to stop the
aircraft before it departed the runway. The plane struck a series
of antennas and lights, crashed through a fence, crossed a nearby
highway, and came to rest on an embankment where it burst into
flames. The crash and subsequent fire killed both flight crew
members and two of the four passengers. The two survivors, Barker
and Goldstein, escaped the aircraft but suffered severe burns.