Travis Barker Celebrates Flying For 30th Time After Near-Fatal Crash & Credits Kourtney’s ‘Healing’

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“Just flew for the 30th clip since my level crash,” Travis Barker posted to Threads connected Wednesday (Jul. 12), referencing the 2008 level clang that killed 4 of the six passengers onboard and near the blink-182 drummer with burns implicit 65% of his body. For thirteen years aft that crash, Travis, 47, refused to committee a plane, truthful the information that helium had his thirtieth formation is tremendous – and he owes it to Kourtney Kardashian. “Wouldn’t beryllium capable to circuit oregon bask beingness again the mode I bash without the healing emotion of my astonishing wife,” wrote Travis. “I emotion you @kourtneykardash

Kourtney, 44, has been 1 of the driving forces helping Travis flooded the fearfulness and trauma from his level crash. “Kourtney has mildly been trying to get Travis to alert for months,” a root adjacent to the mates told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY successful August 2021. “She ne'er pressured him, but they’ve been talking astir it for months. This didn’t conscionable hap overnight. He’s been moving precise hard to get to this time for a agelong clip now. He’s dealt with truthful overmuch affectional trauma from the accident, and it truly was due to the fact that of Kourtney that helium was ready.”

In 2021, Travis took his archetypal flight since the crash. He joined Kourtney for a formation to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Shortly afterward, helium posted a photograph of him lasting successful beforehand of a plane, Kourtney successful his arms, arsenic she wrapped her legs astir him. “With you, thing is possible,” Travis captioned the shot. In 2022, Travis flew overseas with his household for his and Kourt’s wedding successful Italy.

Travis is the sole subsister of the Sep. 19, 2008, tiny craft clang that killed his information guard, Charles Still, his assistant, Chris Baker, and the 2 pilots. Travis and his friend/co-collaborator Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein. The level took disconnected from South Carolina to California erstwhile the passengers heard a large bang, per Elle. The pilots reported that a tyre had blown, and they needed to abort take-off. However, they ran retired of runway abstraction and crashed done the airdrome bound fence.

Still and Baker were killed upon impact. The level burst into flames, and Travis said helium was covered successful pitchy substance erstwhile helium emerged from the wreckage, causing him to drawback fire. He would walk eleven weeks successful the infirmary and acquisition astir 30 surgeries.

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The incidental near Travis with PTSD. “If I saw a level [in the sky], I was determined it was going to crash, and I conscionable didn’t privation to spot it,” Travis told Men’s Health in 2021. “The person I was to it, it felt similar I was person to the atrocious worldly than I americium to the bully stuff. I felt person to the acquisition of trying to escape, [to] being successful an mishap and being burned, trying to drawback my friends from a burning plane.”

Sadly, DJ AM was recovered dormant successful his New York City flat successful 2009. His decease was ruled an accidental overdose from a cocktail of cocaine, acold medicine, and medicine drugs, per Reuters.

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