The Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker and his friend DJ AM are both reported to be critically ill in hospital after surviving a plane crash which killed four others.

The plane was bound for Van Nuys, California from Columbia, South Carolina in a Lear jet when it ran into trouble on takeoff.

Travis is burned from the waist down, but he is expected to survive. DJ AM’s face was severely burned.

Travis’ bodyguard Lil’ Chris Barker are among the four dead.

Eyewitness William Owens told local TV channel WIS-TV: ‘I didn’t know what I had seen - it was maybe 800ft in front of me, but as I approached it closer though, I made out a fire. By then I was able to see the tail of the jet and I recognised it as a jet. It’s in flames and the fuel is running across the road and I had to cross the fuel to get to the two guys that seemed to have been dumped on the highway. We turned to the jet to try and see if there was anything we could do, but immediately, there was nothing anyone could do.’

Our thoughts and prayers go out to their families.