Barker Expected to Make Full Recovery Following Plane Crash

Musician turned fashion entrepreneur Travis Barker is in critical but stable condition following a Sept. 19 plane crash in South Carolina that killed four and injured Barker and fellow passenger Los Angeles deejay Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein.


Barker and Goldstein sustained second- and third-degree burns as a result of the crash, but both are expected to make a full recovery. At press time, both Barker and Goldstein were listed in critical but stable condition at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center at Doctors’ Hospital in Augusta, Ga.


The crash claimed the lives of Barker’s personal assistant, Chris Baker, and bodyguard, Charles Still. Sarah Lemmon and James Bland, pilots of the plane, were also killed.


The heavily tattooed Barker rose to fame as the drummer for Blink-182, a pop-punk outfit out of San Diego, and later played with The Transplants and others. Now, he sells Famous Stars and Straps, his popular brand of streetwear, in stores nationwide and owns Fast Life, a retail shop at 8101 Third St. in Los Angeles.


Funerals for Baker and Still are scheduled for the week of the 22nd. Fans and friends erected a memorial to Baker and Still at Fast Life, leaving flowers, notes and photos outside the store.