{"id":360,"date":"2010-04-08T11:21:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T17:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2010-04-08T11:21:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T17:21:13","slug":"federal-authorities-blame-tires-pilot-for-travis-barker-jet-crash-that-killed-four-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/federal-authorities-blame-tires-pilot-for-travis-barker-jet-crash-that-killed-four-people.html","title":{"rendered":"Federal Authorities Blame Tires, Pilot For Travis Barker Jet Crash That Killed Four People"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

\u00a0A federal probe has found that under-inflated tires were one of the causes of a 2008 Learjet crash that killed four people and injured Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker and the disc jockey DJ AM.<\/p>\r\n

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\u00a0The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) also attributed the crash to flight Captain Sarah Lemmon\u2019s decision to abort\u00a0takeoff when the plane\u00a0was traveling at a dangerously fast speed. http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-04-06\/business-jet-crash-in-2008-caused-by-tires-pilot-u-s-says.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0Lemmon only had 35 hours of experience flying a Learjet 60, and decided to stop the takeoff even though the plane was traveling at 150 miles per hour.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0The jet\u2019s tires hadn\u2019t been checked in three weeks, and on Sept. 18, 2008 it overshot the runway at a Columbia, S.C., airport. The plane was carrying Barker and DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, two of their staff members and two pilots. The artists were leaving after performing in Columbia, S.C.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0When the pilot attempted to abort the takeoff, all four of the jet\u2019s \u00a0tires exploded. Parts of the tires hit the plane\u2019s hydraulic system, rendering the brakes useless.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0The jet ran off the runway, went through a fence, crossed a five-lane highway, crashed into an embankment and than burst into flames. Barker and Goldstein were the only survivors.\u00a0Goldstein died a year after the accident of a drug overdose.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0The NTSB also found fault with the Learjet\u2019s operator, Global Exec Aviation, for \u201cinadequate maintenance.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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\u00a0A federal probe has found that under-inflated tires were one of the causes of a 2008 Learjet crash that killed four people and injured Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker and the disc jockey DJ AM. \u00a0http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5izwd7Gz69cuwiUr1cScdTnRDTpYAD9ETPQD81 \u00a0The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) also attributed the crash to flight Captain Sarah Lemmon\u2019s decision to abort\u00a0takeoff when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,125,131,126,127,129,123,132,124,128],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adam-goldstein","tag-blink-182","tag-columbia","tag-dj-am","tag-learjet","tag-national-transportation-safety-board","tag-plane-crash","tag-s-c","tag-travis-barker","tag-under-inflated-tires"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t