Barker & DJ AM Describe Escape

A police officer says he listened in disbelief as two men he saw running from blazing plane wreckage described how they escaped the inferno.

Lt. Josh Shumpert said Wednesday he later learned the men were former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity disc jockey DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein. Shumpert had kept the badly burned men talking as they waited for medical help Friday night after the crash in Columbia.

Barker told Shumpert they slid down the plane's wings before rolling around on the ground to put out flames on their clothing. He said Barker was screaming and seemed to be in intense pain.

The musicians, who have second- and third-degree burns, were the only survivors. One of their doctors at a Georgia burn hospital said he expects them to fully recover.

Pilot Sarah Lemmon, 31, and co-pilot James Bland, 52, died of smoke inhalation and burns within minutes of the crash into an embankment about a quarter-mile from the end of the airport's runway. A South Carolina coroner has said Chris Baker, 29, and Charles Still, 25, close friends of the musicians, died on impact.

Baker was an assistant to Barker and "was like extended family," Nosal said. Still was working as a security guard for the musician, who Nosal said didn't always travel with one. They were on a weekend trip to perform for about 10,000 people in a neighborhood near the University of South Carolina.

Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board said they have not determined what caused the crash. However, they say a cockpit voice recorder revealed that crew members thought a tire blew and tried to abort the takeoff but couldn't stop the plane. The Learjet 60 shot off the end of the runway, ripped through a fence and crossed a highway before coming to rest, engulfed in flames.

The investigation continues.