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Another Lawsuit Filed in Travis Barker Plane Crash Lawsuit

There has been a round of lawsuits filed relating to the plane crash in South Carolina that injured musician Travis Barker, and his friend DJ AM, and killed four others, including the pilot. Now, in the most recent addition to the lawsuit spree comes one filed by the charter operator and the company that owned the plane. The operator Global Exec Aviation Inc and owner of the plane, Inter Travel & Services Inc have filed a lawsuit against the company that manufactured the plane, the company that manufactured the tires that have played a major role in causing the crash as well as the Columbia Metropolitan Airport in South Carolina where the crash occurred.

Learjet which manufactured the plane, has been named in the lawsuit for building a poorly designed plane, and the lawsuit specifically mentions faulty brake systems. Goodyear Tires finds a mention because of its defective tires. The crash was apparently caused by a burst tire as the plane was preparing to take off. The airport has been mentioned for its failure to prevent the “calamitous” and hazardous conditions that contributed to the aborted take off ending in a fiery explosion. Barker, a former musician with Blink 182 and DJ AM suffered serious burn injuries in the crash. Barker’s bodyguard Charles Still, and his assistant Chris Baker, were killed in the accident. The first lawsuit that was filed was the one by Barker, which blamed the charter company and others for his injuries. His lawsuit also mentioned Still’s mother as a plaintiff. The widow of Chris Barker filed a wrongful death lawsuit a few weeks later. DJ AM filed an injury lawsuit against Goodyear, Learjet and the operator and owner of the jet. Earlier, reports claimed that DJ AM had also sued the estates of the two pilots who died in the crash, but he later denied these rumors.

The latest lawsuit by the plane’s owner and charter company brings the total number of lawsuits filed after the crash to 5. The suit is claming $12 million in damages. Investigations into the crash are not yet complete, but there have been reports that suggest that there was a tire malfunction before the pilots decided to abort take off. Cockpit recordings made in the moments before the crash seems to suggest that the pilots were aware of the tire blow out. Pieces of the blown out tire were recovered thousands of feet away from the spot where the plane began to taxi down the runway. The airport has been blamed for a faulty design that lowered the amount of space that the plane had to make a stop, as well as fencing that ended up damaging the plane’s fuel tanks. There was also an embankment circling the runway which ended up causing the plane to crash into it.

We are not likely to know the exact details of the plane crash until the National Transportation Safety Board completes its investigation and that could take months.

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