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Punk band Blink-182′s drummer Travis Barker has settled a lawsuit that he filed over the plane crash in 2008 that left him with third-degree burns and killed four other people, reports CHARTattack.com.

Barker was a passenger on a chartered Learjet plane on Sept. 19, 2008 when it crashed and burst into flames after overshooting a runway in Columbia, Southern California. The crash left Barker and DJ AM with third-degree burns, and killed the four other people aboard the plane.

Barker sued three major companies in November, 2008. First, Bombardier Inc., which manufactured the Learjet plane that crashed. Second, the charter company Global Exec Aviation. Third, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, which made the plane’s tires. As well, he sued the companies that brokered the chartered flight.

Barker’s claim was that the companies did not properly operate or maintain the Learjet.

The crash killed Barker’s assistant Chris Baker, his bodyguard Charles Still, and the plane’s two pilots. Still’s mother is part of Barker’s settlement.

DJ AM, the plane crash’s only other survivor, died of a drug overdose in August.

According to Billboard.com, the man who represents some of the defendants, William L. Robinson, said the details of the settlement will stay confidential.