Official Cause Of Travis Barker & DJ AM’s Plane Crash Disclosed

After much investigation into the details of the plane crash that seriously injured Travis Barker of (Blink-182) and Adam Goldstein (DJ AM) and left 4 dead, the official cause of the wreck has been released.

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“According to the National Transportation Safety Board, while the jet traveled at over 150 mph on the runway, all four of its tires exploded within seconds of each other, hurling debris into the hydraulic system and causing the plane’s brakes to fail when pilots attempted to abort the takeoff, the Associated Press reports.”

“The NTSB also cited damages to the plane’s thrust reversers and the pilot’s relative inexperience in that aircraft as contributing factors. However, it was lack of maintenance on the tires that caused them to explode: The NTSB found that the charter company hadn’t checked the tires’ pressure in three weeks, and considering the tires lost two percent of their pressure a day, they’d need to be replaced after eight days.”

The September 2008 crash has been blamed for DJ AM’s relapse to drugs, which inevitably led to his death last summer. Since then his family has filed a wrongful death suit against companies involved with the crash, while Barker and the families of two of the deceased (Chris Baker and Charles Still) have settled lawsuits with those companies.

Info courtesy of Rolling Stone.