Taken from Yahoo news....
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said the
Learjet plane carrying six people was taking off in South Carolina on
Friday night when air traffic controllers reported seeing sparks. The
plane headed for Van Nuys, California, went off a runway, through a
fence and crashed on a nearby road, officials said.
Barker and DJ
AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, were in critical condition at a
burn centre in Augusta, Georgia, about 75 miles south-west of Columbia,
hospital spokeswoman Beth Frits said. Two other passengers and two crew
members died, said the National Transportation Safety Board. Their
identities were not immediately available.
At the crash site on
Saturday, the air was still heavy with the odour of jet fuel. A trail
of black soot led off a runway, across a five-lane road next to the
airport and up an embankment. The nose of the aircraft was gone and the
roof was missing from two-thirds of the charred plane.
Barker and Goldstein had performed together under the name TRVSDJ-AM at a free concert in Columbia on Friday night.
The
show, which included performances by former Jane's Addiction singer
Perry Farrell and singer Gavin DeGraw, drew 10,000 people into the
streets of Five Points, the neighbourhood near the University of South
Carolina, Columbia Mayor Bob Coble said. Neither Ferrell nor DeGraw
were in the plane, their representatives said.
Barker, 32, was
one of the more colourful members of the multiplatinum-selling punk
rock band Blink-182, whose biggest album was 1999's CD Enema of the
State, which sold more than five million copies in the United States
alone.
After Blink-182 disbanded in 2005, Barker went on to form
the rock band (+44) -- pronounced "plus forty-four". He also starred in
the MTV reality series Meet the Barkers with former Miss USA Shanna
Moakler, to whom he was married at the time. The show documented the
former couple's lavish wedding and life. Their later split,
reconciliation and subsequent break-up made them tabloid favourites.
Goldstein is a popular DJ for hire who at one time was engaged to Nicole Richie.
Barker and Goldstein performed as part of the house band at the MTV Video Music Awards earlier this month.