Bits and pieces of information is streaming in about what happened in the first few seconds after the jet that was flying DJ AM, Travis Barker and four more people crashed late last night.

A local resident was driving down the highway next to the airport when he saw a huge “fireball” go across the road. William Owens said it took a few seconds for him to process that it was actually an airplane.

According to Owens, two men (presumably Travis and DJ AM) were running around and stripping down to extinguish themselves. He said he asked the men if there was anyone else on board the plane and they told him there had been four more with them. “We turned to the jet to try and see if there was anything we could do, but immediately, there was nothing anyone could do,” Owens said.

DJ AM was so badly burned he had to airlifted out, but Travis was stable enough to be driven in an ambulance.

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