Travis Barker says recent plane crashes are biggest fear come to life after surviving deadly 2008 flight

Travis Barker is inactive struggling with his fearfulness of flying aft narrowly surviving a deadly level clang more than 16 years ago. 

In September 2008, Barker and his collaborator Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein were flying connected a backstage Learjet that crashed successful Columbia, South Carolina, aft it caught fire. Barker and Goldstein were the lone survivors of the six radical connected committee the aircraft.

The musician, who was earnestly injured successful the incident, has battled PTSD and flew successful a level for the archetypal clip since the clang successful 2021 aft initially vowing ne'er to committee a level again. 

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Travis Barker admitted that his fearfulness of flying astir prevented him from coming to New Orleans this weekend. (Leonard Ortiz/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

During an interrogation with Fox News Digital, Barker admitted that helium hesitated implicit taking the travel to New Orleans this weekend, erstwhile helium hosted his Run Travis Run lawsuit connected Friday up of his show astatine FanDuel x Spotify Super Bowl Party. He said that helium was shaken by the 2 level crashes that shocked the satellite conscionable implicit a week ago.

"It really doesn't assistance maine determination past it, it makes it overmuch worse," helium admitted. "I astir didn't come."

"It's hard for maine to get connected flights," helium continued. "I bash it sober. I don't request to instrumentality anything. I don't request to bash anything. But it conscionable gets harder and harder. Especially erstwhile your biggest fears, like, you commencement to spot them travel to beingness successful reality.

"When you benignant of archer yourself, these things ne'er happen. These things ne'er happen. And then, conscionable lately, I consciousness similar we've been — similar we're seeing it astir each day."

On Jan. 29, a United States Army Black Hawk chopper collided midair with an American Airlines commercialized rider level implicit the Potomac River arsenic the airliner was preparing to onshore astatine Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport successful Arlington, Virginia. All 67 people, including 64 connected the level and 3 successful the helicopter, perished successful the crash.

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The catastrophe marked the archetypal large clang involving a U.S. rider level since 2009. It was besides the deadliest clang since an American Airlines planetary rider level plummeted into a vicinity successful Queens, New York, which claimed the lives of each 260 radical connected board.

"It conscionable gets harder and harder. Especially erstwhile your biggest fears, like, you commencement to spot them travel to beingness successful reality." 

Just 2 days later, a aesculapian pitchy crashed into a vicinity successful Philadelphia, sidesplitting each six radical connected board, including a young miss and her mother.

After the 2008 crash, Barker sustained terrible burns each implicit his body. He spent 11 weeks successful the infirmary and his betterment included 16 surgeries and galore tegument grafts. Barker has credited the clang with helping him flooded his addiction to painkillers. Goldstein, who suffered terrible second- and third-degree burns connected his arms and scalp, died a twelvemonth aboriginal from a cause overdose.

Travis Barker, right, and Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein were the sole survivors of a deadly 2008 level crash. (Nick Valinote/FilmMagic)

In August 2021, Barker took his archetypal formation since the tragedy, accompanying his then-girlfriend Kourtney Kardashian, her parent Kris Jenner and the Kardashian household matriarch's fellow Corey Gamble connected a travel to Cabo, Mexico, aboard Kylie Jenner's backstage jet.

Barker and Kourtney tied the knot successful May 2022 aft a twelvemonth of dating. In November 2023, the mates welcomed their archetypal kid together, lad Rocky Thirteen Barker. Barker is besides begetter to lad Landon, 21, and girl Alabama, 19, who helium shares with his ex-wife Shanna Moakler. Kourtney shares sons Mason, 15, and Reign,10, and girl Penelope, 12, with her ex, Scott Disick.

While speaking with Fox News Digital astatine the Run Travis Run event, Barker gushed astir raising Rocky and noted that his babe lad is pursuing successful his philharmonic footsteps.

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"Baby Rocky is amazing," helium said. "Playing drums, guitar, walking and moving everywhere. And he's the best. He's the coolest kid ever."

The Grammy Award nominee also weighed successful connected the challenges and rewards of being a begetter to a 1-year-old.

"I deliberation there's thing challenging astir it," helium said. "The astir rewarding is conscionable starting my time and ending my time with my babies — the champion — with each my kids, really. And that's my extremity to commencement my time with them and beryllium capable to accidental bully nighttime to everyone and buss them bully night."

Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker tied the knot successful 2022. (Getty Images)

Barker besides shared the secrets to his palmy matrimony with Kourtney.

"I deliberation moving retired unneurotic is simply a large thing," helium said. "I deliberation day nighttime is awesome. And I deliberation conscionable being with idiosyncratic that's similar your champion person is like, I couldn't inquire for thing more."

Barker precocious took the signifier to execute with state prima Jelly Roll at the star-studded FireAid mega-concert, which raised implicit $100 cardinal for Los Angeles occurrence alleviation efforts and the disaster's victims. Last month, a fig of fires devastated respective antithetic areas successful the county, resulting successful 29 deaths and destroying astir 17,000 structures. 

In summation to being a portion of the lineup astatine the FireAid concert, Barker is besides utilizing his Run Travis Run lawsuit to assistance with the fires' aftermath. According to a property merchandise for the event, each proceeds volition beryllium donated to the LAFD Foundation and the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, which is helping incarcerated firefighters who battled the infernos.

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The "I Think I'm OKAY" hitmaker told Fox News Digital that helium was "very grateful" that he, his household and their houses were "safe" during the fires.

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"LA was affected, you know? I mean, you guys each saw it," helium said. "So for me, doing thing I could for each the occurrence victims and our occurrence department."

"That's different crushed wherefore I'm doing this," helium said of Run Travis Run. "It was similar an casual telephone for me." 

"And yeah, the vigor that nighttime was incredible," Barker added of the FireAid concert.

In June 2024, Barker launched the tally and wellness acquisition Run Travis Run, which helium antecedently said was inspired by the steadfast manner that helium embraced arsenic helium recovered from the injuries helium sustained successful the 2008 level crash. In July, Barker and Kourtney hosted Run Travis Run events successful LA and New York City, and the "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" alum besides accompanied her hubby to the lawsuit successful New Orleans.

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According to a property release, the New Orleans variation of Run Travis Run included "a scenic tally done the iconic Audobon park, followed by an unforgettable Revival Zone featuring interactive activations, wellness experiences, and exclusive entree to premium brands."

Participants besides person a commemorative shirt, a customized medal and an all-access walk to the celebration.

Travis Barker launched his wellness acquisition Run Travis Run past year. ( Olivia Wong/Getty Images)

During his interrogation with Fox News Digital, Barker reflected connected however helium became a runner.

"I conscionable started moving 1 day." Honestly, it's precise akin to Forrest Gump," helium said, referencing the quality played by Tom Hanks successful the Academy Award-winning 1994 movie "Forrest Gump." In the film, Hanks' quality earns fame erstwhile helium spontaneously embarks connected a three-year cross-country run.

"I conscionable started running, like, 20 years ago, possibly 15 years ago," Barker said. "It's been astir 20 years now, and I started moving and boxing astatine the aforesaid time. And it was conscionable similar my outlet. It was benignant of a signifier of meditation, and it besides helped maine support my stamina, my endurance for drumming and doing immoderate of the fittingness worldly I emotion to do."

"And conscionable staying healthy," helium added. "Once I had kids, I had this impulse to beryllium arsenic steadfast arsenic I could be."

From near to right, Alabama Barker, Reign Disick, Kourtney Kardashian, Travis Barker, Landon Barker and Atiana De La Hoya successful 2022. (Frazer Harrison)

However, Barker admitted that helium has sustained immoderate injuries during training.

"I've really been wounded a mates of times," helium said. "So, similar with running, I deliberation I overtrained a small spot aft my past 5K. I tried to bushed my record, which is simply a 20-minute 5K, and I didn't and past I benignant of got down connected myself. I got harder connected myself, and I was like, ‘I tin tally six miles a day’ and 3 miles into it, I wounded my hip."

"So I deliberation I've been moving similar a week and a fractional present again. But yeah, I'll enactment connected the battle motorcycle during that clip oregon boxing."

Despite being injured, Barker said that helium was determined to support running.

"I'm going to bash this regardless, whether I'm present successful a parkland with nevertheless galore people, oregon I'm solo. I tally 3 to 5 miles a day."

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