Blink 182 Drummer Launches Memorial Fund After Plane Crash
Former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker has established a memorial fund after being injured in a plane crash which killed four people.
The memorial fund has been set up through Travis Barker's clothing company, Famous Stars and Straps, for those who died in last week's (September 19) plane crash, where a Learjet ran off the runway at Columbia Metropolitan Airport, South Carolina on Friday.
Barker and musical partner DJ AM slid down the plane's right wing to escape the wreckage, though Barker's assistant, Chris Baker, and bodyguard, Charles Still, were among those killed in the incident.
Bill Nosal, a friend of Barker, told the Associated Press that Baker "was like extended family" to the former Blink 182 star.
He said: "If you make it out of a crash of that magnitude, somebody's looking out for you. He's trying to stay upbeat."
Barker and DJ AM are both expected to make full recoveries.
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