Travis Barker Settles Plane Crash Lawsuit

Blink-182 drummer settles with companies involved in 2008 accident for undisclosed sum.
By Gil Kaufman

Travis Barker


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Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker has settled a lawsuit over the deadly 2008 plane crash in South Carolina that killed four people and caused severe injuries to him and late friend DJ AM.

According to TMZ, the multiple defendants in the case — Clay Lacy Aviation, Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Global Exec Aviation, Bombardier Inc. and others — reached an undisclosed agreement with Barker during a mediation session in November, and the confidential settlement papers were filed on December 3.

The same mediation session also brought to settlement a lawsuit filed by the mother of Barker’s bodyguard, Charles “Che” Still, who died in the crash.

Months after the crash, Barker explained that he filed the suit because he believed pilot error and defective equipment caused the accident, from which he and AM escaped, sustaining serious second- and third-degree burns. “You know, I wouldn’t have third-degree burns all over my body or be prohibited to do certain things. I can’t go swimming; I can’t do some of the things that normal people can do,” he said. “I didn’t ask for that to happen.”