{"id":70907,"date":"2026-08-20T21:15:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/how-travis-barker-really-overcame-his-fear-of-flying\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T21:15:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:15:50","slug":"how-travis-barker-really-overcame-his-fear-of-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/how-travis-barker-really-overcame-his-fear-of-flying\/","title":{"rendered":"How Travis Barker REALLY Overcame His Fear of Flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/loudwire.com\/tags\/travis-barker\/\" target=\"_blank\">Travis Barker<\/a> became upset with the producers of his new documentary after they suggested he tried getting back on a plane for the first time since a near-fatal crash.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/loudwire.com\/tags\/blink-182\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blink-182<\/a> drummer was a passenger on a plane in 2008 that crashed during takeoff, killing four of the six people on board.<\/p>\n<h3>What Documentary Producers Said to Travis Barker<\/h3>\n<p>Barker was a recent guest on the <em>And The Writer Is&#8230;<\/em> podcast. The appearance was part of a promotional effort hyping up the new Hulu doc, <em>Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the documentary, Barker talks about his life, including how he continued to avoid flying following the fiery plane crash. The final scene shows Barker entering a plane for his first flight since the 2008 incident.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/loudwire.com\/blink-182-travis-barker-tattoos-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">30 Photos of Travis Barker&#8217;s Unbelievable Tattoo Transformation Through the Years.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>During the podcast, Barker said producers initially struggled to come up with an ending.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The producers of the documentary came to me, and they said, &#8216;Do you think you could just like walk on a plane and that&#8217;s the ending of our story, or like we have you at the airport and you&#8217;re staring at a plane like you&#8217;re going to fly?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barker\u00a0explained he had no interest in being anywhere near an airport due to what he experienced during the deadly plane crash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I literally physically couldn&#8217;t walk near a plane,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<h3>How Travis Barker Responded to Producers&#8217; Request to Fly<\/h3>\n<p>The conversation with producers didn&#8217;t sit well with Barker who felt like he was being asked to do something he wasn&#8217;t capable of doing. He considered the documentary &#8220;dead&#8221; after being asked in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said the doc can come out when I&#8217;m dead one day, but it&#8217;s dead to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At that time, Barker was &#8220;content&#8221; with never flying again, even if it meant long periods on boats and trains when touring internationally with Blink-182. He later reconsidered the producers&#8217; request and instead decided to use it as a &#8220;challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Part of me was like, &#8216;Fuck you for even trying to pitch that to me for my ending.&#8217; And then part of me was really upset at myself that I don&#8217;t fly and it has such power over me. And it has so much power over my family and my kids and none of us fly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center\">WATCH: Travis Barker on <em>And The Writer Is&#8230;<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Barker kept the idea of flying again to himself as he continued to suffer from what he described as &#8220;survivor&#8217;s guilt.&#8221; He started to see similarities between the situation and how he had\u00a0approached trying to be &#8220;straight edge&#8221; and abstain from drugs and alcohol when he was younger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the same kid when I was growing up that was straight edge for a number of years that didn&#8217;t want to drink, didn&#8217;t want to smoke &#8230; that same part of me was like &#8216;not flying is not going to happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear\u00a0<\/em>is currently available to stream on Hulu.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading\u00a0for a closer look at Travis Barker&#8217;s transformation through the years through his massive collection of tattoos.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photogallery-wrapper blog-photogallery \">\n<h2 class=\"photogallery-title\">30 Photos Showing Travis Barker&#8217;s Tattoo Progression Through The Years<\/h2>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/loudwire.com\/author\/robc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Carroll<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/diffuser.fm\/rest\/carbon\/api\/scripts.js?mver=27&#038;gver=10&#038;bid=443&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fplatform.twitter.com%2Fwidgets.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fapis.google.com%2Fjs%2Fplatform.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.facebook.net%2Fen_US%2Fsdk.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.pinterest.com%2Fjs%2Fpinit.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer data-osano=\"ESSENTIAL\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/diffuser.fm\/ixp\/366\/p\/how-travis-barker-overcame-fear-of-flying\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Barker became upset with the producers of his new documentary after they suggested he tried getting back on a plane for the first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":70908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}