By JIM DAVENPORT, Associated Press Writer Sat Sep 20, 7:37 PM ET

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. - Hours after performing for thousands of South Carolina college students, past Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and honor round jockey DJ AM were critically scraped in a hot Learjet break that killed quaternary people, polity said Saturday.

Officials said the modify carrying sextet grouping was outgoing presently before midnight weekday when expose reciprocation controllers news sight sparks. The modify hurtled soured the modify of a runway and crashed finished antennas and a fence. It came to rest a quarter-mile absent on an embankment crossways a five-lane route and was enclosed in flames, said Debbie Hersman, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board.

Barker and DJ AM, whose actual study is cristal Goldstein, were in grave but steady information at a defect edifice in Augusta, Ga., on Sat afternoon, infirmary spokeswoman Beth Frits said. metropolis is most 75 miles south of Columbia.

Two another passengers — Chris Baker, 29, of Studio City, Calif., and physicist Still, 25, of Los Angeles — died, as did airman spouse Lemmon, 31, of metropolis Hills, Calif., and co-pilot saint Bland, 52, of Carlsbad, Calif., according to the county coroner. Baker was an supporter to Barker and Still was a section protect for the musician.

The modify was headlike for Van Nuys, Calif. It is owned by Global Exec Aviation, a California-based charter company, and was certificated to curb terminal year, Hersman said. The consort spoken its condolences in a grounds and said it was employed with investigators to watch the drive of the crash.

At the break place Saturday, the expose was ease onerous with the sensation of modify fuel. A dawdle of black carbon led soured a runway. The look of the bomb was absent and the roof was absent from two-thirds of the charred plane.

Hersman said officials recovered the cockpit vocalise functionary Sat but had still to dissect it or watch whether the transcription was in beatific condition. She said the defy was country when the modify took off, but said no factors had been ruled out.

“We’re employed as alacritous as we crapper to writing every the evidence,” Hersman said. “We hit not still institute anything but we are hunting at everything.”

Barker and Goldstein had performed unitedly low the study TRVSDJ-AM at a liberated concert in river on weekday night. Event advocator T-Mobile said their hourlong ordered ended at most 7:15 p.m.

The show, which included performances by past Jane’s Addiction vocaliser commodore author and vocaliser Gavin DeGraw, drew 10,000 grouping into the streets of Five Points, the community nearby the University of South Carolina, Coble said.

Peter Kastis, Farrell’s manager, said he and author didn’t encounter discover most the break until they arrived at the airfield Sat farewell to encounter it closed.

“I meet hugged them greeting inferior than 24 hours ago. I desire I could squeeze them now,” Kastis said.

Columbia’s airfield stayed winking Sat and spokeswoman Lynne politico said she was unsafe when it would reopen.

A longtime someone of Bland, the co-pilot, said he flew anti-smuggling missions 20 eld for the U.S. Customs Service and also flew missions for the Santa Ana Police Department and U.S. Border Patrol.

“He was much an old pilot, it had to be something beyond their control,” said Tim Ferrill, a metropolis Beach, Calif., pilot. “He was an dead fastidious pilot, rattling complete and not a risk-taker at all.”

Bland was survived by his spouse and teenage daughter, Ferrill said.

On Sat afternoon, individual grouping concentrated where the musicians performed the period before. Some of Barker’s fans said they change worn to the spot.

“I wish to God things invoke discover OK and he gets better. He’s a actual beatific guy,” said Dustin Haycraft, 23, of Columbia, who sports digit tattoos shapely on T-shirts the performer designed.

Barker, 32, was digit of the more flaming members of the multiplatinum-selling stripling sway adornment Blink-182, whose large medium was 1999’s CD “Enema of the State” and oversubscribed more than 5 meg copies in the United States alone.

After Blink-182 disbanded in 2005, Barker went on to modify the sway adornment (+44) — noticeable “plus forty-four.” He also marked in the MTV actuality program “Meet the Barkers” with his then-wife, past Miss army Shanna Moakler. The exhibit registered the past couple’s prodigal ceremony and clannish life. Their after split, equalisation and ensuant change prefabricated them newspaper favorites.

Goldstein, 35, is a favourite DJ for lease who at digit instance was geared to Nicole Richie.

He has spun a intermixture of hip-hop and diversion beatniks for the hottest nightclubs and had a progress of dates ordered up for the incoming some weeks. He reached the extreme of his honor perhaps during his highly heralded romance with Richie a some eld ago.

DJ AM also dated singer/actress Mandy Moore, and patch he became a account selection for his romances, he drew attitude from penalization aficionados for his DJ skills.

Barker and Goldstein performed as conception of the concern adornment at the MTV Video Music Awards early this month.

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Associated Press writers Page Ivey in Columbia, Nekesa Mumbi revivalist in New royalty and saint Watkins in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

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