Plane crash at Tom Cruise’s film set: 2 dead, 1 injured

Crash site on the set of the film 'Mena'

A tragic plane crash has occurred during the shoot of Tom cruise’s movie “Mena”, killing two people and injuring  a third person in Medellin, Colombia. The two people killed were identified as American film pilot Alan David Purwin and Colombian Carlos Berl. Another American pilot, Jimmy Lee Garland, was severely injured and hospitalized in Medellin, the Variety reports.

The deceased

Local authorities has since blamed bad weather had caused the twin-engine Aerostar to crash against the Alto de la Clarita mountain, after taking off from the town of Santa Fe de Antioquia.
Purwin was founder and president of Los Angeles-based Helinet Technologies, which provides aerial surveillance technology to law enforcement and government agencies. He’s worked on such films as “Transformers,” “Pearl Harbor” and “Pirates of the Caribbean.”

Tom Cruise

The Universal Pictures drama directed by Doug Liman has been shooting in Colombia since late August. Cruise plays Barry Seal in the film ‘Mena’, the American pilot who worked for Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar before he became a spy for the Drug Enforcement Agency. The film also stars Jesse Plemons, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright and Caleb Landry Jones.