Plane crash on Cruise’s movie set kills two
Plane crash on Cruise’s movie set kills two
Published: 11:11 am Sep 13, 2015
LOS ANGELES: A small plane assigned to the crew of a Tom Cruise-starring drug war drama, Mena, crashed on the set near Medellin, Colombia, killing two people. One person is seriously injured in the accident on September 11, USA’s civilian aviation authority has confirmed, reported TMZ. Two American pilots and a Colombian were aboard the plane. An American, Alan Purwin, and a Colombian, Carlos Berl, were killed in the incident, while a third person in the plane, American pilot Jimmy Lee Garland, was rushed to a hospital in Medellin. According to the official, the twin-engine Aerostar ran into bad weather late September 11 afternoon after taking off from the colonial town of Santa Fe de Antioquia. Cruise, 53, and director Doug Liman were not on the plane. The actor reportedly had just wrapped a scene prior to the accident. Liman is said to be shaken up over the tragedy. Mena is a movie about Barry Seal, a portly pilot who, in the 1980s, was a 300-pound gun runner, and drug trafficker who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel.