Travis Barker jumped from plane seconds before it exploded
Travis Barker has recalled the harrowing moment he escaped from a crashe plane by jumping out of the emergency door just seconds before the aircraft exploded.
Travis Barker escaped from a crashed plane by jumping out of the emergency exit just seconds before the aircraft exploded.
The Blink-182 star has opened up about the terrifying accident which nearly killed him back in 2008 when the private jet he was travelling on crashed during take-off at an airport in South Carolina claiming the lives of four people - revealing he revived his pal Adam 'DJ AM' Goldstein and the pair managed to get out of the plane "ten seconds" before it exploded.
Speaking in new documentary Louder Than Fear, Travis recalled: "I feel it getting very rough, I guess at this point the landing gear had blown up. The belly of the plane is basically on the ground skidding and it catches fire.
"The plane attempted to take off and go into the air, and then we'd go down, go into the air, go down and we end up hitting an embankment. Just fire and chaos everywhere.
"AM was knocked out, he'd hit his head, so I grabbed him and I shook him and he woke up, tried to get in front of him and the lower parts of my arms caught fire.
"I opened the emergency exit and jumped out right into the jet where all the fuel is, then my whole body caught fire. I'm running and the fire won't go out, I stop, drop and roll and AM came out and he patted my feet off fire. Ten seconds later the plane blows up."
Travis broke all of his ribs and fractured his back in four places while 65 per cent of his body was covered in third degree burns.
The musician admitted he struggled to cope as he recovered in hospital, saying: "I couldn't see my kids because 65 per cent of my body was an open wound. I was handling that miserably.
"I was suicidal in the hospital and I was there for another three and half months and had 27 surgeries."
The plane crash killed Travis' assistant Chris Baker and security guard Charles Still Jr as well as the two pilots. The rocker's pal Goldstein survived the accident, but he died a year later after suffering a drug overdose.
Travis went on to reveal his world collapsed for a second time after Goldstein's death, saying: "After AM passed it was beyond difficult to relate to anybody. I really had no one, I would exhaust post-traumatic doctors and I would hit walls constantly.
"I definitely had feelings of survivor guilt, I was beating myself up: 'Why am I here and everyone else isn't?' I had to believe I was still here for a reason ...
"My kids really kept me together. It was the best thing for my recovery and to give me strength. I flushed my painkillers down the toilet - I was not going to fail my kids."
