June 1, 2010 3:00 PM
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DJ AM's Hollywood Benefit Bash
(AP)
Friends of DJ AM are throwing a party to welcome the celebrity disc jockey home after he survived a fiery plane crash last month in South Carolina.
Mark Ronson, Cut Chemist, Steve Aoki and other AM pals will perform at the event, which will be held Tuesday night at the Avalon nightclub in Hollywood, Calif.
Organizers say all proceeds will go to memorial funds for the crash victims.
DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, and former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker suffered severe burns in the September 19th crash in Columbia, South Carolina. Two pilots and two other passengers, who were close friends of the musicians were killed.
Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board have said a cockpit voice recorder revealed that crew members thought a tire blew out and tried to abort the takeoff. Investigators recovered pieces of tire from the runway.
An officer who was among the first on the scene said the musicians told him they escaped the flaming wreckage by sliding down a wing.
The Learjet shot off the end of the runway, ripped through a fence and crossed a highway before coming to rest.
Barker was one of the more colorful members of the multiplatinum-selling punk rock band Blink-182. DJ AM is a popular disc jockey who was also a tabloid favorite for some celebrity romances.
Mark Ronson, Cut Chemist, Steve Aoki and other AM pals will perform at the event, which will be held Tuesday night at the Avalon nightclub in Hollywood, Calif.
Organizers say all proceeds will go to memorial funds for the crash victims.
DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, and former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker suffered severe burns in the September 19th crash in Columbia, South Carolina. Two pilots and two other passengers, who were close friends of the musicians were killed.
Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board have said a cockpit voice recorder revealed that crew members thought a tire blew out and tried to abort the takeoff. Investigators recovered pieces of tire from the runway.
An officer who was among the first on the scene said the musicians told him they escaped the flaming wreckage by sliding down a wing.
The Learjet shot off the end of the runway, ripped through a fence and crossed a highway before coming to rest.
Barker was one of the more colorful members of the multiplatinum-selling punk rock band Blink-182. DJ AM is a popular disc jockey who was also a tabloid favorite for some celebrity romances.
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