Former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ Adam Michael Goldstein, also known as DJ AM, were aboard a Learjet that crashed upon takeoff from a Columbia, South Carolina, airport after midnight Friday. The two members of the crew and two members of Barker’s entourage that were riding along were killed in the crash, or, more likely by the flames of the burning plane.

South Carolina's Lexington County coroner, Harry Harman, and deputy coroner, Brian Setree, identified the four victims as pilot Sarah Lemmon, 31, of Anaheim Hills, Calif.; co-pilot James Bland, 52, of Carlsbad, Calif.; security guard Charles Still, 25, of Los Angeles; and Barker's assistant Chris Baker, 29, also of Los Angeles.

Barker, 32, who used to play drums in the platinum-selling band and also starred in his own MTV reality show with his former wife, and Goldstein, 35, tabloid favourite and the owner of the Hollywood hot spot LAX, were in critical but stable condition Saturday at Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta, Ga., as hospital officials stated in an interview for People. "Both Travis Barker and Adam Goldstein are in critical but stable condition. Goldstein was airlifted here and Barker was brought by ground transportation. So they arrived separately."

The two performers were on their way back home from a free Friday-night college event, which included performances by former Jane's Addiction singer Perry Ferrell and singer Gavin DeGraw. It had drawn about 10,000 people into the streets of the Five Points neighborhood near the University of South Carolina.

A few hours later the private plane crashed due to still unknown causes. The cockpit voice recorder was recovered but the authorities are yet to analyze it or determine whether the recording was in good condition. National Transportation Safety Board member Debbie Hersman said the weather was clear when the plane took off, but said no factors had been ruled out.

Officials said the plane was departing shortly before midnight Friday when air traffic controllers reported seeing sparks. The plane hurtled off the end of a runway and came to rest a quarter-mile away on an embankment across a five-lane highway, engulfed in flames. The Learjet was owned by Global Exec Aviation, a California-based charter company, and was certified to operate last year.

Barker and Goldstein, the sole survivors of the crash, were first spotted at the scene by one witness, 60-year-old delivery van driver William Owens, who reportedly saw a fireball streaking across the highway about 600 feet ahead of him and then noticed “two guys who were on fire and it looked like a dance.”

The two were trying to take off their burning clothes and could only watch the plane burn, as the flames grew higher and higher, making any saving action of the others impossible.