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Travis Barker thanks Kourtney Kardashian for helping him get on his first flight since horror plane crash 13 years ago
Travis Barker overcame his fear of flying with help from girlfriend Kourtney Kardashian (Picture: Getty)
Travis Barker sent a beautiful message to his girlfriend Kourtney Kardashian, praising her for helping him overcome his fear of flying.
The musician recently got on his first plane flight since he narrowly escaped death in a fatal plane crash 13 years ago.
He shared a romantic picture of himself holding Kourtney, 42, in his arms on the tarmac beside Kylie’s plane.
‘With you anything is possible 🖤 @kourtneykardash’ the Blink-182 star tweeted, tagging his girlfriend.
He was spotted boarding Kylie Jenner’s private jet in Los Angeles at the weekend, holding hands with Kourtney. They were whisked off to Cabo, Mexico, along with Kourtney’s mum Kris Jenner and her partner Corey Gamble.
It marked the first time the 45-year-old had been on a plane since 2008, when a business jet he had been taking to Van Nuys, California, crashed, killing four of the six people on board.
Travis and his friend Adam ‘DJ AM’ Goldstein were flying from South Carolina to California with two close friends, assistant Chris Baker and security guard Charles ‘Che’ Still, when the tyres blew during takeoff and the plane overran the runway, skidded across a highway and burst into flames upon hitting an embankment.
Baker, Still and the two pilots, Sarah Lemmon and James Bland, were killed, with Travis and DJ AM able to escape through an emergency exit. Travis was left with third degree burns on 65% of his body and underwent 26 surgeries and numerous skin grafts. DJ AM died of a drug overdose a year after the crash, aged 36.
Kourtney and Travis have openly shared their relationship with fans on social media, with the reality TV star letting her man cut her hair in a pretty major sign of trust.
Kourtney and Travis are not shy about sharing their relationship (Picture: Instagram)
It was recently suggested that the pair, who went public with their relationship in February after being friends for years, got engaged in Las Vegas.
A source close to Kourtney claimed Travis had been ‘planning the proposal for ages.’
The insider said to The Sun: ‘They want to start their own family together – that is the bigger thing for them because they both have kids, but they want to bring the two families together.’
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