OFFICER: "DIVINE INTERVENTION" TRAVIS BARKER GOT OUT OF CRASHTravis Barker was screaming from intense pain after he and DJ AM survived the crash of a private plane Friday night.
"You could tell he was in pain," Lt. Jason Shumpert of the South Congaree Police Department told the Associated Press on Wednesday.
"He just kept saying, 'That's my friends in the plane, that's my friends in the plane,'" Shumpert said.
The pilot and co-pilot died of smoke inhalation and burns while Barker and AM's pals Chris Baker and Charles Still died of impact-related injuries.
"It was divine intervention that they got out," he said. "They should be commended for being able to get out and keep their heads together."
Shumpert described the scene after the fiery plane hit an embankment upon takeoff in Columbia, South Carolina. He said Barker was screaming from second- and third-degree burns.
"They said the plane went down," Shumpert recalled. "They didn't say how or if they knew. Once it went down, they were able to slide down the wing of the plane, and they jumped on each other to put fires on each other out and rolled around on the ground."
Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board have not determined the cause of the crash but the Learjet's black box indicated the crew knew one of the plane's tires had blown.
For details on Barker and AM's recovery and how they survived the crash, check out the latest issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands now. Usmagazine |
