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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kevin E G Perry

Travis Barker shares harrowing new details about plane crash: ‘65% of my body was burned’

Travis Barker has opened up about the horrific injuries he suffered in a 2008 plane crash, recalling: “I broke all of my ribs. Fractured my back in four different places... 65% of my body was burned.”

The 50-year-old Blink-182 drummer was a passenger on a private jet that crashed during takeoff from an airport in South Carolina on September 19, 2008. Four of the six people onboard died in the crash, including both pilots, Barker’s security guard, Charles Still and his personal assistant, Chris Baker.

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