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LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Less than a week after surving a tragic plane crash, DJ AM has been released from the hospital, US Magazine is reporting.

"While he is deeply saddened by the events he is thankful for all of the love and support he has been receiving from fans and friends world wide," a spokesperson for DJ AM said. "We ask that you continue respect his privacy as he rests and heals and mourns the loss of his friends."

Earlier today, record producer Jermaine Dupri said that he thought drummer Travis Barker, who also survived the crash, could be out of the hospital in two weeks.

DJ AM and Travis Barker are the only two survivor of a private plane crash this weekend that investigators believe may have been caused by a blown-out tire.

Four people were killed in the crash, including Barker's assistant and bodyguard as well as the two pilots aboard.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - DJ AM will take the stage for the first time since surviving a deadly plane crash this Saturday in Hollywood. He'll be performing with Jay-Z at the re-opening of the historic Hollywood Palladium.

This will be the DJ's first performance since he survived a plane crash that killed 4 others and seriously injured fellow musician Travis Barker.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - The tires of the Learjet carrying DJ AM and Travis Barker shredded as the plane struggled to take off, according to federal aviation officials.

The crash killed four people and left DJ AM and Travis Barker seriously injured.

Wednesday, the National Transportation and Safety Board said that very little rubber was left on the jet's wheels and the brakes were severely damaged when the plane crashed on takeoff in September.

The plane's cockpit voice recorder reveals that crew members believed a tire blew as that sped down the runway. The pilots apparently tried unsuccessfully to abort the takeoff.

LOS ANGELES California (X17online) - The cockpit voice recordings from the learjet crash that injured drummer Travis Barker and DJ AM have been released by the Federal Aviation Administration.

In the recordings, the pilot tells air traffic controllers the plane is "going off the end" of the runway.

"Roll the equipment, we're going off the end," co-pilot James Bland says on the recordings, released Tuesday.

The pilots words are the last recorded before the accident that killed the pilot and 3 others on September 19th.

Controllers at the Columbia, S.C., airport can also be heard on the recordings working to divert other planes and calling for emergency personnel after the jet ran off the runway, ripped through a fence and came to rest in flames

Aviation officials have said cockpit recordings showed the jet's crew thought a tire had blown before takeoff, but those sounds were not in the files released Tuesday.

National Transportation Safety Board officials have said pieces of tire were recovered about 2,800 feet from where the plane started its takeoff down the 8,600-foot runway.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Travis Barker and DJ AM will perform together for the first time since the pair survived a fiery plane crash in South Carolina.

The former Blink-182 drummer and DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, will headline New Year's Nation's Los Angeles New Year's Eve Party at The Lot in West Hollywood, California.

The performance will be streamed on the Internet and broadcast at other New Year's Nation parties across the U.S.

It will mark the first concert for the pair since they performed at a free concert for about 10,000 people in Columbia, South Carolina, before boarding a private plane September 19 for Los Angeles that crashed and killed four people.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - The wife of Travis Barker's assistant is suing several aviation companies and the estates of two pilots over the crash that killed her husband earlier this year in South Carolina.

Otilia Villar Baker, wife of Chris Baker, filed the suit in Los Angeles Superior court, alleging negligence and wrongful death. The lawsuit was also filed on behalf of the Bakers' young son, Sebastian.

The suit claims the companies contributed to the Sept. 19 crash that also killed the two pilots and Barker's bodyguard. Barker and Adam Goldstein, known as DJ AM, were severely injured.

The suit seeks damages for pain and anguish Barker's long-time assistant suffered before his death, loss of earnings, companionship, repayment of funeral and other costs.

Travis Barker sued the same companies, which include Clay Lacy Aviation, Goodyear Tire and Rubber, Bombardier Inc., Global Exec Aviation and Inter Travel & Services, last month.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Adam Goldstein, better known as DJ AM, has filed a lawsuit claiming negligence and breach of contract in the September plane crash he survived.

Goldstein and drummer Travis Barker were the only survivors of the learjet crash in South Carolina.

Goldstein's lawsuit seeks a jury trial, but doesn't specify how much money he hopes to receive for loss of earnings, medical expenses, pain and suffering and other damages.

The lawsuit claims the plane's owners and operators acted in a careless and negligent manner and that Goldstein has been seriously harmed — physically and financially — by the crash.

Federal investigators have not yet determined the cause of the crash.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - DJ AM, who escaped a deadly airplane crash last year that killed 4 people, was booked on a doomed Continental airlines flight that crashed in Buffalo killing all 49 people aboard.

According to TMZ, DJ AM says he had a bad feeling about the flight and decided to drive instead.

DJ AM says he's finished with flying and will only travel by car in the future.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - DJ AM is seeking at least $20 million in damages in a lawsuit filed against the operator of a jet charter that crashed killing four people.

According to TMZ, DJ AM is asking for at least $10 million for medical bills, lost earnings and profits and other economic damages. He's seeking another $10 million for mental and physical pain suffering and what is described as "non-economic losses."

DJ AM and Travis Barker were the only survivors when their jet crashed during take off in South Carolina, last September.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Celebrity Rehab host and addiction specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky says the pain meds DJ AM was taking for painful burns sustained after a harrowing plane crash may have "reawakened" addiction in the formerly sober DJ.

"It very slowly and subtly reawakens addiction," Pinsky told the AP. "I'm not saying it was inappropriately prescribed, I'm saying he didn't know the risks."

DJ AM, who had beat an addiction to crack and ecstasy, was set to debut a show on MTV, "Gone Too Far," about people struggling to kick their own addictions.

"I am a recovering drug addict," AM said recently while promoting the show. "When I see it and I'm in their room and the paraphernalia and the whole lifestyle and everything, I still, 11 years later, have that little thing in my head that starts thinking, 'Oh, where's that? I wonder what that is?'"

Athough AM wasn't found until Friday afternoon in his New York apartment, he texted two friends that morning at 1am. Police are still trying to piece together an exact time and cause of death as they wait for the toxicology reports.

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LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - DJ AM, née Adam Goldstein, was memorialized at the Hollywood Palladium last night in a service that resembled a 12-step meeting.

In addition to former fiancée Nicole Richie, hundreds of people showed up to pay their respects, including Lindsay Lohan, Samantha Ronson, Rebecca Gayheart and Eric Dane.

Longtime pal Brent Bolthouse spoke at the meeting, as well as AM's girlfriend Hayley Wood.

The toxicology report has yet to be released, but it's been confirmed that Oxycontin was in AM's system when he died, and crack cocaine was found on the scene.

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