10 Scariest Plane Stories by Celebrities: From Jelly Roll to Travis Barker

For years, Travis Barker has bravely spoken about surviving the traumatic and terrifying plane crash in 2008. At the time, they traveled from Columbia, S.C., to Los Angeles alongside his assistant Chris Baker, security guard Charles “Che” Still and Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein.

Before the plane fully took off, they reportedly heard a loud bang that sounded like gunshots.

Air traffic controllers said they saw sparks from the plane after a tire blew out. The two pilots decided to abort the takeoff, but the aircraft still burst into flames.

Barker and Goldstein sustained second-degree burns, while Still and Baker succumbed to the injuries alongside the two pilots.

The Blink-182 drummer almost got his right foot amputated following the ordeal, but his doctors managed to save it. However, he still stayed in the hospital for 11 weeks and underwent 27 surgeries and skin grafts.

“In about 11 of my 30 surgeries in the burns center, I woke up swinging on doctors. I’d be opened up and just go crazy,” he said on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast. “I would try get off the table … I don’t think I knew what was going on but they just couldn’t give me enough medication to knock me out because I’d been self-medicating for so long and abusing meds for so long. I’d just wake up in the middle of anesthesia.”

Barker also reportedly suffered from suicidal thoughts and developed post-traumatic stress disorder in the years after the incident.