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More details on plane crash involving Travis Barker and DJ AM

Published on September 22, 2008 at 2:47 PM

There are more details on the Learjet that took off from Columbia Metropolitan Airport with six aboard including the only survivors, Travis Barker and DJ AM, late Friday night before careening off the runway, and smashing through a fence and crashing on a nearby road.

Federal Aviation officials said Sunday that the crew thought a tire blew and tried to abort the takeoff but couldn’t stop the plane. A South Carolina coroner now says the pilot and co-pilot killed in the Learjet crash died from smoke inhalation and burns, and two passengers  Chris Baker and Charles Still, were killed by impact related injuries.

The medical director of the burn hospital where former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and DJ AM are being treated says both men are expected to make full recoveries. They both received second- and third-degree burns and doctors say recovery from such burns can take as long as a year, but notes the men had no other injuries. TMZ.com reports Barker was burned from the waist down and his ex wife, Shanna Moakler has rushed to be with him at the Georgia hospital.

DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, was apparently more severely injured, but he was conscious long enough inside the ambulance (at the crash scene) to call his mother, a source told Usmagazine. During the emotional phone call, Adam let her know he was injured and going to the hospital. Adam has reportedly (tough to verify) been put into a medically-induced coma.  “More than 50 percent of his body is burned and the worst is on his face,” a pal told E! online.  It really sounds like Adam is in for a long and traumatic ordeal should he survive his injuries.  Doctors say they expect him to live but deadly infections are always a big issue with severe burn cases like this. Ex girlfriend Mandy Moore has jetted to Adam’s bedside as he continues treatment.  Moore and Goldstein began dating in early 2007 (not long after his break-up with ex-fiancée Nicole Richie).

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