Travis Barker Write On His Near-Death-Experience In New Book

Travis barker can now be said to be one of a very few people live through a fatal plane crash to tell the tale, and in his new book he describes the accident that claimed the lives of two of his friends.

In Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums, the 39-year-old Blink-182 rocker recalls the fateful day on September 19 2008, when the private jet he was travelling on blew out a tire and burst into flames.

    ‘I panicked. I pulled the handle on the emergency exit and kicked the door open. I jumped out — right into the jet wing, which was filled with fuel,’ Us Weekly revealed in an excerpt from the book.

    ‘My whole body got covered with fuel and caught fire, from my legs all the way to my back. I started running. As I ran, I took off my shirt, I took off my hat, I took off my shorts — but I couldn’t get the fire off me.

    ‘I was naked, moving as fast as I could, holding my genitals — everything else was on fire — and I kept running, hoping that would put out the flames.

    ‘At that moment, I felt like I was running for my family. I didn’t care about anything except being with my kids, my father, my sister, Shanna…I didn’t think I was going to survive.’

After attempting to abort the landing, the Learjet 60 smashed through the fence of the South Carolina airport, ran across a highway and collided with an embankment on the far side.

Along with the two pilots, Barker’s personal assistant Chris Baker and bodyguard Che Still, were both killed – Still only took the flight last moment because Barker’s ex-wife Shanna Moakler did not want to leave their kids behind.

The only other survivor was Barker’s close friend and collaborator Adam ‘DJ AM’ Goldstein, who subsequently died the following year of a drug overdose; a combination of cocaine and the drugs prescribed to him fro dealing with the crash.

Source: DailyMail