Accident | |
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Date | September 19, 2008 |
Summary | Runway overrun due to maintenance error and pilot error |
Site | 2860 Edmund Highway, near Columbia Metropolitan Airport, West Columbia, South Carolina, United States 33°56′13″N 81°06′18″W / 33.937°N 81.105°W |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Learjet 60 |
Operator | Global Exec Aviation[1] |
Registration | N999LJ |
Flight origin | Columbia Metropolitan Airport, Columbia, South Carolina |
Destination | Van Nuys Airport, Van Nuys, California |
Occupants | 6 |
Passengers | 4 |
Crew | 2 |
Fatalities | 4 |
Injuries | 2 |
Survivors | 2 |
On the night of September 19, 2008, a Learjet 60 business jet (registration N999LJ)[2] operating for Global Exec Aviation, crashed during take-off from Columbia Metropolitan Airport in South Carolina.[3][4]
Four of the six people on board died in the crash. The survivors, musician Travis Barker and disc jockey Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein, were critically injured.[5] The jet had been due to fly Barker, Goldstein, and their entourage to Van Nuys, California, after their TRV$DJAM band's performance at a concert in Five Points.[6]
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