{"id":117366,"date":"2012-07-11T21:29:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T21:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2012\/07\/11\/travis-barker-still-afraid-of-flying-after-crash\/"},"modified":"2012-07-11T21:29:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T21:29:38","slug":"travis-barker-still-afraid-of-flying-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2012\/07\/11\/travis-barker-still-afraid-of-flying-after-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Barker still afraid of flying  after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>Travis Barker is worried about travelling on tour with Blink 182 after surviving a horrific plane crash in 2008.<br \/>\nThe drummer and DJ AM were left in \u201ccritical but stable\u201d condition after the accident that killed four passengers, and it still haunts him.<\/p>\n<p>Travis admitted that the incident had given him a fear of flying and that is bound to cause issues for the series of concerts which kicked off yesterday (10.07.12).<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThis will be the big tour that supports the album in Europe. Mind you, I\u2019m not flying, so it\u2019s hard to say what the band could do or what its potential is, because I can\u2019t really get everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added to Red Bulletin magazine: \u201cI\u2019m contemplating getting knocked out and getting on a plane to Australia. I want to overcome that eventually. <\/p>\n<p>When I do, I think it\u2019s going to be Qantas. They never had a crash, never had a fatality&#8211;knock on wood. It\u2019s something I want to overcome for me&#8211;and my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Investigators from the South Carolina crash had revealed that one of the Learjet\u2019s tires blew as it sped toward takeoff.<br \/>\nThe captain &#8211; who only had 35 hours of flight time and had not been properly trained to handle such incidents &#8211; made the decision to abort, but the plane was going too fast and ended up crashing into an embankment.<\/p>\n<p>Barker and DJ AM &#8211; who died of an accidental overdose in 2009 &#8211; were the only survivors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Barker is worried about travelling on tour with Blink 182 after surviving a horrific plane crash in 2008. The drummer and DJ AM were left in \u201ccritical but stable\u201d condition after the accident that killed four passengers, and it still haunts him. Travis admitted that the incident had given him a fear of flying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}