Former Blink-182 Drummer, DJ “Critical, But Stable” at Joseph M. Still Burn Center Following Crash

UPDATED at 7:50 p.m. Saturday:

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Investigators say they’ve recovered the cockpit voice recorder from a fiery South Carolina jet crash that killed four and critically injured former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ AM.

National Transportation Safety Board member Debbie Hersman said Saturday that the recorder has yet to be analyzed. She says authorities investigating the crash at Columbia Metropolitan Airport have yet to rule anything out for causing the crash, but the plane took off in clear weather.

The Learjet overshot the runway, and hurtled across a five-lane road shortly before midnight Friday. Barker and DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, were in critical but stable condition at a burn center in Georgia. The pilot, co-pilot and two passengers died.

The airport remains closed.

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Official Press Release from Beth Frits, Doctors Hospital:
For Immediate Release

Media Contact:  Beth Frits.
Victims of Columbia plane crash being treated
at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center

Augusta, GA,  Sept. 20, 2008 – Two victims of a plane crash that occurred last night in Columbia, SC are being treated in the Joseph M. Still Burn Center.  Both are listed in critical, but stable condition.  A press conference will be held Sun., Sept. 21 at 9 a.m. outside the Medical Office Building 1 at Doctors Hospital, 3651 Wheeler Road, Augusta, GA.

UPDATED:  (Columbia, SC)  South Carolina officials say four California residents died in the fiery Learjet crash that also critically injured former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ AM.

The Lexington County coroner said Saturday that pilot Sarah Lemmon of Anaheim Hills and co-pilot James Bland of Carlsbad died.

Also killed were passengers Chris Baker, 29, of Studio City, and Charles Still, 25, of Los Angeles.

Authorities say the plane carrying six people was departing shortly before midnight Friday when air traffic controllers reporting seeing sparks. The plane headed for Van Nuys, Calif., went off a runway, through a fence and crashed on a nearby road.

Barker and DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, were in critical condition at a burn center in Augusta, Ga.

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(Columbia, SC/Augusta, GA)— A hospital spokeswoman says former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and a popular disc jockey have been critically injured in a Learjet crash in South Carolina that killed four people.

Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen says the plane carrying six people was departing shortly before midnight Friday when air traffic controllers reporting seeing sparks. She says the plane went off the runway and crashed on a nearby road.

Doctors Hospital spokeswoman Beth Frits says Barker and DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, were at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta, Ga.

Federal officials say two crew members and two passengers have been killed.

ABC News confirms that both the pilot and co-pilot were killed. There is no word on who the other two deceased passengers are.

ABC News reports that Friday’s concert also included Perry Farrell, formerly of Jane’s Addiction, and Gavin DeGraw.

But there was no confirmation as to whether those two were on the flight or where they went after the show.

Click: here, for ABC News coverage.