Drummer Travis Barker has described the harrowing premonition his young daughter, Alabama, experienced before he boarded a plane in 2008 that crashed, killing four people. Speaking on Jay Shetty's "On Purpose" podcast, Barker, then 50, recounted the moments leading up to the flight that was meant to take him to a performance near the University of South Carolina.

At the time, his daughter, Alabama, then about 3 or 4 years old, was inconsolable. "Dad, don't go!" she reportedly cried, an unusual display of distress. She also repeatedly said, "The roof's gonna come off." Barker recalled being puzzled by her words and attempting to cancel his travel plans, but his manager insisted he proceed.

Barker also admitted to having an unsettling feeling himself upon seeing the aircraft. He was supposed to fly home the following day, but the group decided last-minute to book a private plane to return sooner. This rushed decision prevented him from asking routine questions about the pilots or the plane's maintenance. "I'm like, 'This can't be our plane. There's no way,'" he shared, recalling his apprehension when they arrived at the "small" plane.

Before boarding, Barker called his father, expressing his unease: "If something happens to me, please make sure the kids are taken care of." He described the feeling as "awful," recognizing in retrospect that "all the signs were there."

The flight, carrying Barker, his assistant Chris Baker, security guard Charles “Che” Still, and close friend Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein, crashed shortly after takeoff. Baker, Still, and the two pilots died in the incident. Barker and Goldstein were the sole survivors.

Goldstein died a year later from a prescription drug overdose. Barker sustained severe third-degree burns on over half his body and spent 11 weeks in the hospital, undergoing 27 surgeries. Following the accident, he did not fly for 13 years, only resuming air travel in August 2021.

Barker noted that his current perspective on such situations has changed. "Now older me would just say, ‘I think I’m not gonna get on the plane,'" he stated. He previously recounted the incident in his 2015 memoir, "Can I Say," detailing Alabama's prescient warnings about the "roof" coming off.